The Rhythm of Life and Other Essays
Alice Meynell
Read by Valentina Vocelli
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 diverse collection of essays ranging from reflections on The Sun, and The Flower to the literary figures of Oliver Wendell Holmes and James Russell Lowell. - Summary by Larry Wilson (1 hr 59 min)
Chapters
| The Rhythm of Life | 7:07 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Decivilised | 6:12 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| A Remembrance | 5:05 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| The Sun | 5:14 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| The Flower | 4:26 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Unstable Equilibrium | 3:14 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| The Unit of the World | 7:11 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| By the Railway Side | 4:52 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Pocket Vocabularies | 5:43 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Pathos | 4:26 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| The Point of Honour | 5:33 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Composure | 7:01 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes | 8:26 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| James Russell Lowell | 6:39 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Domus Angusta | 5:19 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Rejection | 4:29 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| The Lesson of Landscape | 7:00 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Mr. Coventry Patmore’s Odes | 9:54 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Innocence and Experience | 4:17 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |
| Penultimate Caricature | 6:55 | Read by Valentina Vocelli |