Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell (22 September 1847 - 27 November 1922) was an English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet.

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    She is so circumspect and right;
    She has her soul to keep.
    Alice Meynell (1847–1922)

    “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?”
    “That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
    “I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
    “Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.
    “Mas long as I get somewhere,” Alice added as an explanation.
    “Oh, you’re sure to do that,” said the Cat, “if you only walk long enough.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    The sense of humour has other things to do
    than to make itself conspicuous in the act
    of laughter.
    —Alice Meynell (1847–1922)