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L. T. Meade
1854–1914
Best known for lively girls’ school stories and a huge range of popular fiction, this Irish-born writer helped shape late Victorian and Edwardian reading for young audiences. She was remarkably prolific, writing adventure tales, mysteries, historical fiction, and stories that reached far beyond the schoolroom.
63 Audiobooks
A Very Naughty Girl
by L. T. Meade
The Rebel of the School
by L. T. Meade
A Master of Mysteries
by Robert Eustace, L. T. Meade
Girls of the True Blue
by L. T. Meade
Daddy's Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Bevy of Girls
by L. T. Meade
A Girl in Ten Thousand
by L. T. Meade
A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
A Plucky Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War
by L. T. Meade
A Life For a Love: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
The Honorable Miss: A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
by L. T. Meade
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
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
The Little Princess of Tower Hill
by L. T. Meade
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
by L. T. Meade
Sue, A Little Heroine
by L. T. Meade
A Little Mother to the Others
by L. T. Meade
The Girls of St. Wode's
by L. T. Meade
The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
by L. T. Meade
Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School
by L. T. Meade
Girls of the Forest
by L. T. Meade
Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Girl of High Adventure
by L. T. Meade
The Children of Wilton Chase
by L. T. Meade
Peggy from Kerry
by L. T. Meade
Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief
by L. T. Meade
Dickory Dock
by L. T. Meade
Girls New and Old
by L. T. Meade
Three Girls from School
by L. T. Meade
A Big Temptation
by Maggie Brown, M. B. Manwell, L. T. Meade
A Sweet Girl Graduate
by L. T. Meade
The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story
by Clifford Halifax, L. T. Meade
The School Queens
by L. T. Meade
How It All Came Round
by L. T. Meade
The Time of Roses
by L. T. Meade
Frances Kane's Fortune
by L. T. Meade
Wild Kitty
by L. T. Meade
On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passion
by L. T. Meade
Bashful Fifteen
by L. T. Meade
A Young Mutineer
by L. T. Meade
A Girl of the People
by L. T. Meade
A Sweet Girl Graduate
by L. T. Meade
A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School
by L. T. Meade
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy
by L. T. Meade
The Children's Pilgrimage
by L. T. Meade
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
by L. T. Meade
Jill: A Flower Girl
by L. T. Meade
Good Luck
by L. T. Meade
The Manor School
by L. T. Meade
The Squire's Little Girl
by L. T. Meade
The Little School-Mothers
by L. T. Meade
David's Little Lad
by L. T. Meade
Wild Heather
by L. T. Meade
The Girl and Her Fortune
by L. T. Meade
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways
by L. T. Meade
Dumps - A Plain Girl
by L. T. Meade
Turquoise and Ruby
by L. T. Meade
A Ring of Rubies
by L. T. Meade
About the author
Born Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith in County Cork, Ireland, L. T. Meade became one of the most widely read writers for children and young adults in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She is especially associated with girls’ fiction, and her school stories helped set patterns that many later writers followed.
Her career was extraordinarily productive. Writing under the name L. T. Meade, she published a large number of novels and stories across several genres, including domestic fiction, adventure, historical tales, and detective work. That range made her popular with a broad readership and helped keep her books in circulation well after their first publication.
Today, she is remembered both as an important early writer of girls’ literature and as a versatile storyteller whose work reflects the tastes and anxieties of her era. For readers coming to her now, her fiction offers a vivid window into Victorian and Edwardian ideas about courage, friendship, family, and independence.