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)
Chapters
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, I. | 6:52 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Fellow Travellers with a Bird, II. | 7:28 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Children in Midwinter | 10:30 | Read by Jim Locke |
| That Pretty Person | 11:59 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Out of Town | 5:50 | Read by Kathleen Moore |
| Expression | 2:34 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Under the Early Stars | 5:15 | Read by Kate Follis |
| The Man with Two Heads | 5:29 | Read by April6090 |
| Children in Burlesque | 4:07 | Read by April6090 |
| Authorship | 3:23 | Read by Kalynda |
| Letters | 3:16 | Read by Kalynda |
| The Fields | 6:26 | Read by Kate Follis |
| The Barren Shore | 8:05 | Read by Kate Follis |
| The Boy | 5:53 | Read by Larry Wilson |
| Illness | 3:51 | Read by Jim Locke |
| The Young Child | 8:42 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Fair and Brown | 7:16 | Read by Jim Locke |
| Real Childhood | 9:48 | Read by Jim Locke |