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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

Year of Publication: 1917Genres: Essays & Short Works

Running Time: 01 hour 56 minutes 44 seconds(18 chapters)

Language: EnglishRead by: Jim Locke, Kate Follis, Kathleen Moore

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