L. T. Meade

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LTM was phenomenal in her output and prided herself on her professionalism. Among her nearly 280 titles (published in the later nineteenth century), most are novels or stories for girls and young women. Others, however (a good many of them written with male collaborators), are mystery or detective stories (some with a touch of the supernatural), or tales of doctors and hospitals in the grindingly poor parts of London. LTM also founded and edited a periodical for girls, and wrote both long and short fiction for adults.
Black and white photograph of L. T. Meade, shown in profile, from the waist up. She is wearing a dress with a tight bodice buttoned in front, with ruffles all round the neckline and short sleeves. Her hair is pulled back in a crown, and she has small circular dangly earrings.

Milestones

5 June 1844
Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (later LTM ) was born at Bandon, Cork, in a pretty little vicarage in the heart of the country.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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By 13 November 1886
LTM published A World of Girls: The Story of a School, which Helen C. Black called her most successful book.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
3081 (1886): 632
British Library Catalogue.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
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26 October 1914
LTM died at her home in Oxford, aged about seventy.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.

Biography

Birth and Background

5 June 1844
Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (later LTM ) was born at Bandon, Cork, in a pretty little vicarage in the heart of the country.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Blain, Virginia, Patricia Clements, and Isobel Grundy, editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
Black, Helen C. Pen, Pencil, Baton and Mask: Biographical Sketches. Spottiswoode, 1896.
223

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