Lydia Miller Middleton

Born in 1866 as Lydia Falconer Fraser Miller, she came from a notably literary family. Sources describe her as the daughter of Professor Davidson of Adelaide and the granddaughter of Hugh Miller. An Australian library record says she arrived in Adelaide in 1870, when her father took up a university post there, and later returned to Scotland in 1884.

She married Thomas Hudson Middleton in 1890 and was later known as Lady Middleton. Contemporary notices and author records identify her as a British writer, and surviving bibliographic listings connect her especially with children's books.

Her best-known work is The Happy Adventurers (1922), a story said to draw on her Adelaide childhood. Other books attributed to her include The Making of Michael and Their London Cousins. She died in 1934.