Wilfrid Meynell
Wilfrid Meynell (17 November 1852, Newcastle-upon-Tyne – 20 October 1948, Pulborough), who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym John Oldcastle, was a British newspaper publisher and editor.Born of an old Yorkshire family on his father's side, he was related to a family of distinguished Quakers on his mother's side: his grandfather was Samuel Tuke, and James Hack Tuke and Daniel Hack Tuke were uncles. Henry Scott Tuke was a cousin.
In 1870, aged 18, Meynell became a convert to Roman Catholicism. He married the writer Alice Thompson in 1877. The pair's first effort at periodical publishing was ''The Pen'', a short-lived critical monthly review. In 1881 he accepted Cardinal Manning's invitation to edit the Catholic ''Weekly Register'', and continued to do so until 1899. Meynell later founded and edited (1883–94) the magazine ''Merry England'', in which he discovered and sponsored the poet Francis Thompson.
In 1887 Wilfred was given the Westminster Press by Cardinal Manning. Wilfred was an urgent Catholic propagandist, and he promptly installed two new printing presses. At his suggestion the Cardinal baptized them. One of the presses was named 'The Cardinal', the other 'Lady Butler' after his sister-in-law, also a Roman Catholic, at that time famed as a painter. A main function of this press was the printing of ''The Weekly Register'', founded in 1849 and also given to Wilfrid to own and edit.
Meynell wrote biographies of Manning, John Henry Newman and Pope Leo XIII. He contributed to a wide range of periodicals including the ''Contemporary Review'', ''The Art Journal'', ''The Magazine of Art'', ''Athenaeum'', the ''Academy'', the ''Saturday Review'', the ''Pall Mall Budget'', ''Illustrated London News'', the ''Daily Chronicle'' and ''The Nineteenth Century''. During March 1906, ''The Windsor Magazine'' published an article entitled ''Politics - Second Series'', co-authored by Meynell and Bertram Fletcher Robinson. This article was recently republished in a book entitled ''The World of Vanity Fair'', edited by Paul Spiring.
By the 1920s, Meynell principally wrote for the ''Dublin Review'' and ''The Tablet''.
Wilfrid and Alice Meynell had eight children, including the writer Viola Meynell, and the founder of The Nonesuch Press, Francis Meynell. After his wife's death in 1922, Meynell lived out the last 25 years of his life mainly at Humphrey's Homestead, Greatham, near Pulborough in West Sussex. He was appointed CBE in the 1943 Birthday Honours for services to literature. Provided by Wikipedia
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Journals and journalism: with a guide for literary beginners. by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
London : Field & Tuer, 1880
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Cardinal Newman by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
London : Burns & Oates, 1907
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The child set in the midst by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
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Aunt Sarah & the war : a tale of transformations. by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
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Benjamin Disraeli, an unconventional biography, by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
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Journals and journalism : with a guide for literary beginners by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
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The man Disraeli. by Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948
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Selected poems of Francis Thompson by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
New York : Dodd, Mead, 1926Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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The works of Francis Thompson. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
New York : Charles Scribner's Sons, 1913Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Poems by Benson, Robert Hugh, 1871-1914
New York, P.J. Kenedy & Sons 1915Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Francis Thompson: poems and essays. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
Freeport, N.Y., Books for Libraries Press 1969Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Selected poems of Francis Thompson. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
London : Methuen and co. [etc.], 1909Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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[The collected works of] Francis Thompson; by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
Westminster, Md., Newman Bookshop, 1947Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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The works of Francis Thompson ... by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
London : Burns & Oates, Ltd., 1913Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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The works of Francis Thompson by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
[New York : C. Scribner's Sons], 1913Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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The works of Francis Thompson. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
New York : AMS Press, 1970Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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The poems of Francis Thompson. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
London, Oxford University Press, H. Milford 1937Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Francis Thompson. by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
Westminster, Md. : Newman Bookshop, 1947Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Selected poems of Alice Meynell by Meynell, Alice, 1847-1922
London : The Nonesuch Press, 1930Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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Selected poems of Francis Thompson by Thompson, Francis, 1859-1907
New York : John Lane, 1910Other Authors: “…Meynell, Wilfrid, 1852-1948…”
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