The Children
Alice Meynell
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Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' Suffrage League, She and her husband Wilfrid Meynell were active in publishing and editing literary works including helping to launch the first works of Francis Thompson, author of "Hound of Heaven." This is a collection of her essays on children. The opening line for the first essay sets the stage. "To attend to a living child is to be baffled in your humour, disappointed of your pathos, and set freshly free from all the pre-occupations. You cannot anticipate him." - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 56 min)
Kapitel
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I. | 6:52 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II. | 7:28 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| Children in Midwinter | 10:30 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| That Pretty Person | 11:59 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
| Out of Town | 5:50 | Gelesen von Kathleen Moore |
| Expression | 2:34 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Under the Early Stars | 5:15 | Gelesen von Kate Follis |
| The Man with Two Heads | 5:29 | Gelesen von April6090 |
| Children in Burlesque | 4:07 | Gelesen von April6090 |
| Authorship | 3:23 | Gelesen von Kalynda |
| Letters | 3:16 | Gelesen von Kalynda |
| The Fields | 6:26 | Gelesen von Kate Follis |
| The Barren Shore | 8:05 | Gelesen von Kate Follis |
| The Boy | 5:53 | Gelesen von Larry Wilson |
| Illness | 3:51 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| The Young Child | 8:42 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| Fair and Brown | 7:16 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |
| Real Childhood | 9:48 | Gelesen von Jim Locke |