This collection of essays by early feminist English author Alice Meynell displays her capacity for deep, lucid reflection on subjects such as human nature and the role of women in Victorian England.

Meynell covers a range from "Grass" and "Clouds" to Time with digressions into art and theatre criticism. Her language, the words, the construction, are poetic.

Contents

The colour of life -- A point of biography -- Cloud -- Winds of the world -- The honours of mortality -- At monastery gates -- Rushes and reeds -- Eleonora Duse -- Donkey races -- Grass -- A woman in grey -- Symmetry and incident -- The illusion of historic time -- Eyes.