L.T. Meade (1844–1914)
Autor(a) de A Sweet Girl Graduate
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
(eng) L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
Séries
Obras de L.T. Meade
The Court-Harman Girls 6 cópias
Betty, A Schoolgirl 5 cópias
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy 5 cópias
Dumps, A Plain Girl 5 cópias
Queen of the Day and Other Stories 4 cópias
The Scamp Family: A Story for Girls 4 cópias
The Darling of the School 4 cópias
Beyond the Blue Mountains 4 cópias
A Little Silver Trumpet 4 cópias
The Temptation of Olive Latimer 4 cópias
A Madcap 4 cópias
The Warder of the Door 4 cópias
Dot and Her Treasures 3 cópias
Hermie's Rose-Buds and Other Stories 3 cópias
The Golden Apple and Other Stories — Contribuinte — 3 cópias
Seven Maids 3 cópias
Queen Rose 3 cópias
Tic-Tac-Too and Butterfly Valley 3 cópias
Andrew Harvey's Wife 3 cópias
A Princess of the Gutter 3 cópias
The Daughter of a Soldier 3 cópias
A Handful of Silver 3 cópias
A Girl of High Adventure 3 cópias
Better Than Riches 3 cópias
Peggy from Kerry 3 cópias
The Queen of Joy 3 cópias
A Soldier of Fortune 3 cópias
The Girls of King's Royal 2 cópias
A Band of Mirth 2 cópias
The Red Cap of Liberty 2 cópias
Her Happy Face 2 cópias
Loveday: The Story of an Heiress 2 cópias
From the Hand of the Hunter 2 cópias
Madge Mostyn's Nieces 2 cópias
The Girl and Her Fortune 2 cópias
The Other Woman 2 cópias
Old Readymoney's Daughter 2 cópias
The Fairy Godmother 2 cópias
Virginia 2 cópias
A Race With the Sun 2 cópias
The Girls of Abinger Close 2 cópias
The Lady of Delight 2 cópias
Nurse Charlotte 2 cópias
Four On an Island 2 cópias
Those Boys 2 cópias
A Bunch of Cousins and The Barn Boys 2 cópias
Lady Anne 2 cópias
A Brave Poor Thing 2 cópias
Pretty-Girl and the Others 2 cópias
The Home of Silence 2 cópias
Mother Herring's Chicken 2 cópias
The Fountain of Beauty 2 cópias
Love's Cross Roads 2 cópias
Aylwyn's Friends 2 cópias
Blue of the Sea 2 cópias
Hetty Beresford 2 cópias
'Ruffles' 2 cópias
The Oracle of Maddox Street 2 cópias
The Witch Maid 2 cópias
Silenced 2 cópias
The Cleverest Woman in England 2 cópias
In an Iron Grip: A Novel 2 cópias
Little Mary and Other Stories 2 cópias
Hepsy Gipsy 2 cópias
The Beresford Prize 2 cópias
Poor Miss Carolina 2 cópias
A Farthingful 2 cópias
The O'Donnells of Inchfawn 2 cópias
A Dweller In Tents 2 cópias
Lettie's Last Home 2 cópias
The Squire's Little Girl 2 cópias
The Passion of Kathleen Duveen 2 cópias
The Doctor's Children 2 cópias
For Dear Dad 2 cópias
Oceana's Girlhood 2 cópias
The Medicine Lady 2 cópias
The Colonel's Conquest 2 cópias
The Colonel and the Boy 2 cópias
Catalina - Art Student 2 cópias
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel 2 cópias
Marigold 2 cópias
A Band of Three 2 cópias
Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will 2 cópias
Cave Perilous 2 cópias
Wheels of Iron 2 cópias
Castle Poverty 2 cópias
The Wooing of Monica 2 cópias
That Brilliant Peggy 2 cópias
Wages 2 cópias
The Children's Pilgrimage 1 exemplar(es)
Happy Hearts and Merry Eyes: A Book of Stories and Verses — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
Andrew Sargeant's Wedding 1 exemplar(es)
Little Folks 1 exemplar(es)
The girls of Mrs. Pritchird's school 1 exemplar(es)
Black Shoes and Blue 1 exemplar(es)
In Time of Roses 1 exemplar(es)
Betty A School Girl 1 exemplar(es)
The Dead Hand 1 exemplar(es)
Merry Winter-Time 1 exemplar(es)
Sarah's Mother 1 exemplar(es)
Nobody's Neighbours 1 exemplar(es)
Happy Playmates: A Volume of Original Pictures, Stories and Verses — Contribuinte — 1 exemplar(es)
The Pearl 1 exemplar(es)
Girl of the people 1 exemplar(es)
La oveja negra 1 exemplar(es)
Cassie and Little Mary 1 exemplar(es)
Dora Deane (The arm chair library, no. 95) 1 exemplar(es)
Me and My Dolls: The Story of the Joys and Troubles of Miss Bo-Peep and Her Doll Family; To Which Is Added, The Strange… 1 exemplar(es)
Playmates : a story for girls 1 exemplar(es)
Girls of the True Blue 1 exemplar(es)
Good Luck 1 exemplar(es)
Little Trouble-the-House 1 exemplar(es)
Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Girls 1 exemplar(es)
Een School van Zeven Meisjes 1 exemplar(es)
Francis Kane's Fortune 1 exemplar(es)
Daddy's girl ; A world of girls 1 exemplar(es)
Mrs. Reid's Terror 1 exemplar(es)
En ulykkelig læge 1 exemplar(es)
The witch maid 1 exemplar(es)
Cave Perilous 1 exemplar(es)
A Girl of the People 1 exemplar(es)
Robina en el colegio; Robina en vacaciones 1 exemplar(es)
Stories from the Old Old Bible 1 exemplar(es)
A Stumble by the Way 1 exemplar(es)
Fingertips 1 exemplar(es)
Through Peril for a Wife 1 exemplar(es)
Bess of Delany's 1 exemplar(es)
A Maid of Mystery 1 exemplar(es)
Love Triumphant 1 exemplar(es)
The Lady Cake-Maker 1 exemplar(es)
The Adventures of Miranda 1 exemplar(es)
At the Back of the World 1 exemplar(es)
Resurgam 1 exemplar(es)
Rosebury 1 exemplar(es)
The Burden of Her Youth 1 exemplar(es)
By Mutual Consent 1 exemplar(es)
Margaret 1 exemplar(es)
Confessions of a Court Milliner 1 exemplar(es)
Drift 1 exemplar(es)
The Secrets of the Dead 1 exemplar(es)
His Mascot 1 exemplar(es)
Mary Gifford, M.B. 1 exemplar(es)
An Oak Coffin 1 exemplar(es)
Without Witnesses 1 exemplar(es)
Followed 1 exemplar(es)
The Outside Ledge 1 exemplar(es)
The Two Sisters 1 exemplar(es)
The Blue Diamond 1 exemplar(es)
The Way of a Woman 1 exemplar(es)
The Siren 1 exemplar(es)
The Desire of Men 1 exemplar(es)
All Sorts 1 exemplar(es)
An Adventuress 1 exemplar(es)
Where the Shoe Pinches 1 exemplar(es)
Little Wife Hester 1 exemplar(es)
The Face of Juliet 1 exemplar(es)
The Maid Indomitable 1 exemplar(es)
Belinda Treherne 1 exemplar(es)
Greater Than Gold 1 exemplar(es)
Elizabeth's Prisoner 1 exemplar(es)
The Great Lord of Masareene 1 exemplar(es)
The House of Black Magic 1 exemplar(es)
Little Josephine 1 exemplar(es)
Lord and Lady Kitty 1 exemplar(es)
Mother and Son 1 exemplar(es)
Miss Gwendoline 1 exemplar(es)
The Soul of Margaret Rand 1 exemplar(es)
Twenty-Four Hours 1 exemplar(es)
Desborough's Wife 1 exemplar(es)
Corporal Violet 1 exemplar(es)
Micah Faraday 1 exemplar(es)
The A.B.C. Girl 1 exemplar(es)
A Girl of To-Day 1 exemplar(es)
Victory 1 exemplar(es)
The Courtship of Sybil 1 exemplar(es)
The Heart of Helen 1 exemplar(es)
The Maid with the Goggles 1 exemplar(es)
The Curse of the Feverals 1 exemplar(es)
The Red Ruth 1 exemplar(es)
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplar(es)
The Love of Susan Cardigan 1 exemplar(es)
The Necklace of Parmona 1 exemplar(es)
The Aim of Her Life 1 exemplar(es)
A Lovely Fiend and Other Stories 1 exemplar(es)
Brother or Husband 1 exemplar(es)
The Pursuit of Penelope 1 exemplar(es)
The Stormy Petrel 1 exemplar(es)
I Will Sing a New Song 1 exemplar(es)
The Rebellion of Lil Carrington 1 exemplar(es)
Associated Works
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1997) — Contribuinte — 185 cópias
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Contribuinte — 108 cópias
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Contribuinte — 104 cópias
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Contribuinte — 92 cópias
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Contribuinte — 91 cópias
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 (1968) — Contribuinte, algumas edições — 52 cópias
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contribuinte — 42 cópias
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others (2008) — Contribuinte — 32 cópias
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies (1967) — Contribuinte — 28 cópias
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contribuinte — 26 cópias
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Contribuinte — 23 cópias
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Contribuinte — 21 cópias
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contribuinte — 13 cópias
Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors (2015) — Autor, algumas edições — 8 cópias
4 Detectives: Miss Madelyn Mack, Violet Strange, Miss Van Snoop, Florence Cusack (2012) — Contribuinte — 4 cópias
The Lady Detectives: Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations — Contribuinte — 2 cópias
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome de batismo
- Toulmin Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade
- Data de nascimento
- 1844-06-05
- Data de falecimento
- 1914-10-26
- Local de enterro
- Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England, UK
- Sexo
- female
- Nacionalidade
- Ireland
UK - Local de nascimento
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
- Local de falecimento
- 20 Lathbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
Dulwich, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Ocupação
- Magazine editor (Atalanta)
writer
girls' school story author - Relacionamentos
- Eustace, Robert (writing partner)
- Aviso de desambiguação
- L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 321
- Also by
- 52
- Membros
- 1,886
- Popularidade
- #13,644
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Resenhas
- 16
- ISBNs
- 222
- Idiomas
- 2
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- 1
A late-19th-century author of Anglo-Irish background, L.T. Meade grew up in County Cork, before moving to London as a young woman and launching a career writing children's books, mysteries, historical adventures, and sentimental romances. She penned over three hundred books, a number of which - The Rebel of the School, Wild Kitty, A Wild Irish Girl, etc. - featured the kind of "Wild Irish Girl" character (or caricature, if one prefers) seen here. This type - the free-spirited, often poetic, always emotional girl, who has trouble conforming to the stricter social rules of English society, but nevertheless has a heart of gold, and some emotional wisdom to share with her English peers - can be traced back to Sydney Owenson's 1806 The Wild Irish Girl: A National Tale, which features a romance between a dissolute English nobleman, and the daughter of a dispossessed Gaelic prince. There is an interesting article by Carole Dunbar on the use of the type in the work of L.T. Meade and Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey in Studies in Children's Literature, 1500-2000. I understand that more recently, Sandra McAvoy's "The 'Wild Irish Girl' in Selected Novels of L.T. Meade" appeared in Adolescence in Modern Irish History. I would imagine that the use of the type here, and the book's connection to Ireland, explains why The Rebel of the School was chosen for our syllabus, in the class on the history of children's literature that I took, while getting my masters at an Irish university.
Despite finding all of this interesting, from a literary and social history perspective, I found that I did not enjoy reading The Rebel of the School. It was not my first book from Meade - before taking my masters, I had read A World of Girls and The Girls of St. Wode's - so I was expecting the style of writing, and the sometimes divided plot-lines. What I wasn't expecting was to find the main character so thoroughly annoying. I recall reading this, in my university library, and texting one of my masters cohort afterward, to say that if Kathleen had said the word 'bedad' one more time, I might have chucked the book across the room. It isn't just the showy "Irishness" here, that felt over the top and stereotypically "stage Irish" to me, it was the fact that Kathleen is so oblivious to the welfare and real feelings of her so-called friends, leading them into situations that could be very damaging for them, perhaps even imperil their ability to get an education, and therefore, possible ability to prosper economically. It irritated me to see the author depict her as somehow loving, when it is so clear that her actions are driven by her own desires and feelings, and are entirely inward-looking. It was particularly troubling to see this quality of obliviousness, or indifference to the good of others, set down to some kind of "Irish" nature. Finally, I found the conclusion, which is terribly rushed, completely unconvincing. It felt as if, having created a mess through her character, Meade ran out of time and energy to untangle the snarled plot-lines of her story, and just decided to end it with a kind of one-page "and it all turned out well" declaration.
I'm not sure I would highly recommend this one, unless it be to the determined fan of Meade, who does have her devotees, or to the reader interested in the 'Wild Irish Girl' character in children's fiction.… (mais)