author
L. T. Meade
1854–1914
A hugely popular Victorian storyteller, she wrote hundreds of books and stories for young readers while also helping shape the girls' school story as a genre. Her work ranged beyond school fiction into mysteries, adventures, and magazine tales, showing just how versatile and prolific she was.
64 Audiobooks
A Bevy of Girls
by L. T. Meade
Good Luck
by L. T. Meade
Frances Kane's Fortune
by L. T. Meade
Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Sweet Girl Graduate
by L. T. Meade
A Girl of the People
by L. T. Meade
A Very Naughty Girl
by L. T. Meade
Daddy's Girl
by L. T. Meade
The Time of Roses
by L. T. Meade
A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
The Children's Pilgrimage
by L. T. Meade
Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School
by L. T. Meade
A Plucky Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Little Mother to the Others
by L. T. Meade
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War
by L. T. Meade
The Rebel of the School
by L. T. Meade
Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways
by L. T. Meade
Jill: A Flower Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Girl in Ten Thousand
by L. T. Meade
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
by L. T. Meade
Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World
by L. T. Meade
Light O' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Life For a Love: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
The Little Princess of Tower Hill
by L. T. Meade
On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passion
by L. T. Meade
A Girl of High Adventure
by L. T. Meade
The Manor School
by L. T. Meade
Girls of the Forest
by L. T. Meade
The Little School-Mothers
by L. T. Meade
A Young Mutineer
by L. T. Meade
The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
Peggy from Kerry
by L. T. Meade
The Children of Wilton Chase
by L. T. Meade
The School Queens
by L. T. Meade
A Big Temptation
by L. T. Meade, Maggie Browne, M. B. Manwell
Dickory Dock
by L. T. Meade
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy
by L. T. Meade
Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief
by L. T. Meade
David's Little Lad
by L. T. Meade
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
by L. T. Meade
The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
by L. T. Meade
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
How It All Came Round
by L. T. Meade
Girls of the True Blue
by L. T. Meade
Girls New and Old
by L. T. Meade
Sue, A Little Heroine
by L. T. Meade
A Ring of Rubies
by L. T. Meade
The Girl and Her Fortune
by L. T. Meade
A Master of Mysteries
by L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace
Wild Kitty
by L. T. Meade
A Sweet Girl Graduate
by L. T. Meade
Dr. Rumsey's patient : a very strange story
by L. T. Meade, Clifford Halifax
Turquoise and Ruby
by L. T. Meade
Wild Heather
by L. T. Meade
A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School
by L. T. Meade
The Girls of St. Wode's
by L. T. Meade
The Squire's Little Girl
by L. T. Meade
Bashful Fifteen
by L. T. Meade
Dumps - A Plain Girl
by L. T. Meade
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
by L. T. Meade
Three Girls from School
by L. T. Meade
About the author
Born Elizabeth Thomasina Meade in Bandon, County Cork, in 1844, she became famous under the name L. T. Meade. She began writing young and later moved to London, where she built an extraordinary career as an author and editor.
Meade was one of the most prolific writers of her era, producing a vast number of books, especially for girls and young women. She is closely associated with the rise of the girls' school story, but her writing life was much broader than that, including adventure fiction, historical stories, religious tales, and mysteries.
She also wrote for popular magazines and collaborated on crime fiction, including stories featuring memorable female villains. That mix of warmth, drama, and restless invention helped make her a major presence in late Victorian and early twentieth-century popular literature.