Mrs. L.T. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Toulmin Smith), was a prolific children's author of Anglo Irish extraction. Born in 1844, Meade was the eldest daughter of a Protestant clergyman, whose church was in County Cork. Moving from Ireland to London as a young woman, after the death of her mother, she studied in the Reading Room of the British Museum in preparation for her intended career as a writer, before marrying Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. The author of close to 300 books, Meade wrote in many genres, but is best known for her girls' school stories. She was one of the editors of the girls' magazine, Atalanta from 1887-93, and was active in women's issues. She died in 1914.
Series
Books
The Little Princess of Tower Hill
1889
A Master of Mysteries
1898
The Children of Wilton Chase. By L.T. Meade. With Original Illustrations by Everard Hopkins. 1891 [Leather Bound]
1891
An Oak Coffin
2015
The Doctor's Dilemma
2015
The Death Certificate
2012
Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures
2021
The Rebel of the School
1902
The Time of Roses
1900
Red Rose and Tiger Lily; or, In a Wider World
1894
A Plucky Girl
1900
Betty Vivian
A Story of Haddo Court School
1909
Stories From the Diary Of a Doctor
1894
A Sweet Girl Graduate
1891
A Very Naughty Girl
1901
The Warder of the Door
1897
A World of Girls
The Story of a School
1886
Wild Kitty
1897
The Sorceress of the Strand and Other Stories
2016
The Palace Beautiful
A Story for Girls
1887
Very Far West
1894
The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel
2023
The Girls of St. Wode's
1898
The Children's Pilgrimage
1883
The Horror of Studley Grange
1893
The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings
1899
Blood on the Tracks
Railway Mysteries
2018
Polly
A New-Fashioned Girl
1889
My Hypnotic Patient
1894
The Sorceress Of The Strand
1903
A Little Mother to the Others
1891
The Lady Detectives
Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations
2019
The School Queens 1910 [Leather Bound]
1908
A Girl of the People
1890
