"The Spirit of Place, and Other Essays" by Alice Meynell
Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell was a British writer, editor, critic, and suffragist, now remembered mainly as a poet. This book collects some of her best essays about life, the world, and the human experience: The Spirit of Place, Mrs. Dingley, Solitude, The Lady of the Lyrics, July, Wells, The Foot, Have Patience, Little Saint, The Ladies of the Idyll, A Derivation, A Counterchange, Rain, Letters of Marceline Valmore, The Hours of Sleep, The Horizon, Habits and Consciousness, and Shadows.