Alice Meynell, poet and mother of a large family, watches children closely and refuses to sentimentalise them. Her short essays describe how a child is like a bird whose song never repeats, children in midwinter and out of town, their gestures and expressions, their fears under the early stars, and why it is a peculiarly English habit to make fun of them.
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