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Lydia Miller Middleton
1866–1934
A writer of early 20th-century children's fiction, she is best remembered for lively adventure stories such as The Happy Adventurers. Her life connected Scotland, Australia, and England, and that wider world seems to echo through her books.
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The Happy Adventurers
by Lydia Miller Middleton
About the author
Born in 1866 as Lydia Falconer Fraser Miller, she was the granddaughter of the Scottish writer and naturalist Hugh Miller. Later known as Lady Middleton after her 1890 marriage to Sir Thomas Middleton, she wrote children's books under the name Lydia Miller Middleton.
Library and public-domain records link her with Adelaide as well as Scotland and England: she went to Adelaide in 1870 when her father took a chair in English literature there, and she returned to Scotland in 1884. That background helps explain why her fiction is often described as adventurous and outward-looking.
Her known books include The Making of Michael (about 1920), Their London Cousins (1921), and The Happy Adventurers (1922), the last of which is available through Project Gutenberg. She died in 1934.