Esther Meynell Biography

Esther Hallam Meynell (née Moorhouse) (1878 in Leeds – 4 February 1955 in Brighton, Sussex), was an English author. She is best known for her The Little Chronicle of Magdalena Bach, a fictional autobiography of Anna Magdalena Bach, the wife of composer Johann Sebastian Bach, and Nelson’s Lady Hamilton, a book about the life of Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Lord Nelson. There are also many books by her about Sussex, where she lived. On the other hand, her Time's Door belongs to the genre of science fiction due to its theme of time travel. Meynell was the niece by marriage of the poet and suffragette Alice Meynell.