author
Lydia Miller Middleton
1866–1934
A British writer remembered today for cheerful adventure stories for younger readers, she also contributed biographical writing to major reference works. Her life connected literary circles, academic life, and public service in Britain at the turn of the 20th century.
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The Happy Adventurers
by Lydia Miller Middleton
About the author
Born in 1866 as Lydia Falconer Fraser Miller, she was a British author who published as Lydia Miller Middleton and later became Lady Middleton. Reliable sources identify her as the daughter of Professor Davidson of Adelaide, the granddaughter of the writer and naturalist Hugh Miller, and the wife of Sir Thomas Hudson Middleton, whom she married in 1890.
She is best known in modern catalogs for The Happy Adventurers, which is preserved by Project Gutenberg and other library listings. Book records also associate her with Their London Cousins, showing that she wrote fiction for younger readers with a light, adventurous spirit.
Her work was not limited to children's fiction. Reference sources connect her with contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography, which points to a wider literary and scholarly side to her career. She died in 1934 at Twickenham.