London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure

By Alice Meynell

Alice Meynell was an English editor and suffragist who is now best known for her poetry, much of which is still read today.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Krill Press
• Release date: Feb 20, 2016
• ISBN: 9781531217068

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LONDON IMPRESSIONS: ETCHINGS AND PICTURES IN PHOTOGRAVURE

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Alice Meynell

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

LONDON IMPRESSIONS: ETCHINGS AND PICTURES IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY: WILLIAM HYDE: AND ESSAYS BY

LIST OF ESSAYS

THE LONDON SUNDAY

A PILGRIM

THE EFFECT OF LONDON

THE CLIMATE OF SMOKE

THE TREES

CHELSEA REACH

THE SPRING

BELOW BRIDGE

THE ROADS

THE SMOULDERING CITY

London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure

By

Alice Meynell

London Impressions: Etchings and Pictures in Photogravure

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First published circa 1922

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LONDON IMPRESSIONS: ETCHINGS AND PICTURES IN PHOTOGRAVURE BY: WILLIAM HYDE: AND ESSAYS BY

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WESTMINSTER

ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE AND CO.

2 WHITEHALL GARDENS

1898

A Cheap Market.

LIST OF PICTURES

LIST OF ESSAYS

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THE RIVER.

THE LONDON SUNDAY

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THIS SEEMS TO BE A thing that all exclaim against, and but few see. The phrase is never varied—a sure sign of lack of experience. One cries, ‘Oh, the London Sunday!’ and another, ‘It must be too dreadful for foreigners!’ and before the topic disappears something yet vaguer has been said, in a flickering manner, as to the Boulevards. But in fact London Sunday is little understood even by those who know its aspect, and the greater number do not know even so much.

A Forgotten Corner.

Obviously, it is one thing in the summer of livelong sunshine, and another thing in winter. When the tops of the steeples fly a blue and white sky as far as the eye may see—a broad flag for the streets, and a narrow, wavering pennon for the alleys; when the reluctant faces of grey houses are compelled by the fires of the day to bandy reflections with the grey houses opposite; when the sun himself is lodged in every window, so that the town multiplies his very face, and sets up suns to the west in the morning and to the east in the evening—suns in rows, and suns that run fluctuating along the windows of a long, unequal street; when the plane-tree is fresh and the leaf of the elm already dry, the London Sunday, from beginning to end, is passed by the London people out of doors. For this reason it is difficult to understand it; you cannot tell whither these streams of people are bound. They all have the gait of making for some end; they do not stroll, and there is doubtless some excursion afoot. The number of young