Cradle Song at Twilight

English writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. She was born in Barnes in London. Preludes (1875) was her first poetry collection and it was illustrated by her elder sister Elizabeth. The work was warmly praised by Ruskin, although it received little public notice. She wrote regularly for publications such as The Spectator and the Scots Observer (which became the National Observer). At the end of the nineteenth century she became a leading figure in the Women Writers' Suffrage League. After a series of illnesses, including migraine and depression, she died on 27th November 1922. There is a commemorative Blue Plaque on the front wall of the property at 47 Palace Court, London, W2, where she and her husband Wilfred Meynell lived.