 She wrote the article on Patmore for the "Catholic Encyclopedia".At the end of the 19th century, in conjunction with uprisings against the British (among them the Indians', the Zulus', the Boxer Rebellion, and the Muslim revolt led by Muhammad Ahmed in the Sudan), many European scholars, writers, and artists, began to question Europe's colonial imperialism.This led the Meynells and others in their circle to speak out for the oppressed.