 Meynell wrote biographies of Manning, John Henry Newman and Pope Leo XIII.He contributed to a wide range of periodicals including the "Contemporary Review", "The Art Journal", "The Magazine of Art", "Athenaeum", the "Academy", the "Saturday Review", the "Pall Mall Budget", "Illustrated London News", the "Daily Chronicle" and the Nineteenth Century.During March 1906, "The Windsor Magazine" published an article entitled "Politics - Second Series" that was coauthored by Meynell and Bertram Fletcher Robinson.