The Fold

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The Fold is composed of The Shepherdess, “I am the Way”, Via, et Veritas, et Vita, Why wilt Thou Chide?, The Lady Poverty, The Fold, Cradle-song at Twilight, The Roaring Frost, Parentage, The Modern Mother, West Wind in Winter, November Blue, Chimes, Unto us a Son is given, A Dead Harvest, The Two Poets, A Poet’s Wife, Veneration of Images, and At Night.

Alice Christiana Gertrude Thompson Meynell was a British author, poet, editor, critic, and suffragist. She was born in Barnes, London, to Thomas James Thompson and Christiana Weller Thompson. The family lived around England, Switzerland, and France, but she lived mostly in Italy, where a daughter of her father from his first marriage also resided. Her father was a close friend of Charles Dickens, and Meynell believed that Dickens like her mother, marking what he had said to her father, “Good God, what a madman I should seem if the incredible feeling I have conceived for that girl could be made plain to anyone!”.

Preludes was her first volume of poetry, containing illustrations from her elder sister Elizabeth, the artist Lady Elizabeth Butler, who was married to Sir William Francis Butler. The poetry was adored by Ruskin, but it gained a little success. Ruskin distinguished the sonnet “Renunciation” for its charm and fascination.

The Thompson family converted to the Catholic Church and her writings changed its motifs of religion. Which made her collaborate with a Catholic newspaper publisher and editor Wilfrid Meynell. She married Meynell, and they moved in Kensington. They became the owners and editors of periodicals such as The Pen, the Weekly Register, and Merry England, and many others.

She had much compassion in editorial work with her husband, and in her own writing, poetry and prose. She also wrote for The World, The Spectator, The Magazine of Art, the Scots Observer, The Tablet, The Art Journal, the Pall Mall Gazette, and The Saturday Review.
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