Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell ( - )
Short biography

A poet, writer, editor, critic, and suffragist.

Full biography

Meynell authored the 1889 piece entitled 'Newlyn', published in The Art Journal, which has been taken as contemporary evidence of the existence of a 'Newlyn school'.

The artists Meynell mentions are Bateman, Bourdillon, Bramley, Craft, Detmold, Armstrong, Forbes, Garstin, Gotch, Hall, Langley, Millard, Tayler and Tuke.

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A photograph of Alice Meynell
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Alice Meynell, 1912.
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