author
L. T. Meade
1854–1914
Best known for lively stories for girls and for early crime fiction, this Irish-born writer was astonishingly prolific, publishing hundreds of books and stories across her career. Her work moved easily from school stories and adventure tales to sensation and mystery.
64 Audiobooks
A Bevy of Girls
by L. T. Meade
Good Luck
by L. T. Meade
Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl
by L. T. Meade
Frances Kane's Fortune
by L. T. Meade
A Very Naughty Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Sweet Girl Graduate
by L. T. Meade
A Girl of the People
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
A Plucky Girl
by L. T. Meade
Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School
by L. T. Meade
A Little Mother to the Others
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
Jill: A Flower Girl
by L. T. Meade
A Life For a Love: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
Red Rose and Tiger Lily; Or, In a Wider World
by L. T. Meade
The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
The Manor School
by L. T. Meade
The Little School-Mothers
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
A Girl of High Adventure
by L. T. Meade
The School Queens
by L. T. Meade
Girls of the Forest
by L. T. Meade
On the Brink of a Chasm: A record of plot and passion
by L. T. Meade
A Girl in Ten Thousand
by L. T. Meade
The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls
by L. T. Meade
David's Little Lad
by L. T. Meade
A Young Mutineer
by L. T. Meade
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy
by L. T. Meade
A Big Temptation
by L. T. Meade, Maggie Browne, M. B. Manwell
A Master of Mysteries
by L. T. Meade, Robert Eustace
Girls of the True Blue
by L. T. Meade
Peggy from Kerry
by L. T. Meade
Bashful Fifteen
by L. T. Meade
The Girl and Her Fortune
by L. T. Meade
Scamp and I: A Story of City By-Ways
by L. T. Meade
Girls New and Old
by L. T. Meade
Dr. Rumsey's patient : a very strange story
by L. T. Meade, Clifford Halifax
The Children of Wilton Chase
by L. T. Meade
The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland
by L. T. Meade
Sue, A Little Heroine
by L. T. Meade
A World of Girls: The Story of a School
by L. T. Meade
Dickory Dock
by L. T. Meade
Turquoise and Ruby
by L. T. Meade
A Ring of Rubies
by L. T. Meade
Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief
by L. T. Meade
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel
by L. T. Meade
Wild Heather
by L. T. Meade
The Girls of St. Wode's
by L. T. Meade
How It All Came Round
by L. T. Meade
Wild Kitty
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
The Squire's Little Girl
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 in Bandon, County Cork, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith wrote under the name L. T. Meade. She began publishing while still young and went on to become one of the most productive popular writers of her era, building a wide readership with fiction for girls as well as novels and short stories for adults.
She is especially remembered for helping shape the girls' school story and for writing energetic, accessible fiction that appealed to late Victorian and Edwardian readers. She also worked as an editor, and her crime stories, including collaborations with Robert Eustace, are often noted for bringing medical and forensic elements into popular mystery fiction.
Although some sources list her birth year differently, the pages consulted agree that she died in 1914. What stands out most is the sheer range of her work: she could be moral, adventurous, suspenseful, and entertaining all at once, which helps explain why her name still turns up in discussions of both children's literature and early detective fiction.