Francis Meynell

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Francis Meynell (1891-1975) was a British poet and printer at the Nonesuch Press.

He was son of the writer Alice Meynell, a suffragist and Roman Catholic. He received a knighthood in 1946. He married Alix Kilroy (1903-1999), a civil servant; they worked together during World War II on Utility design, an austere and functional style.

[edit] References

  • Francis Meynell (1971) My Lives
  • Alix Meynell (1988) Public Servant, Private Woman: An Autobiography

[edit] External link

In other languages