L.T. Meade (1844–1914)
Auteur de A Sweet Girl Graduate
A propos de l'auteur
Notice de désambiguation :
(eng) L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
Séries
Œuvres de L.T. Meade
The Court-Harman Girls 6 exemplaires
Daddy's Girl and Consuelo's Quest of Happiness 5 exemplaires
Dumps, A Plain Girl 5 exemplaires
Betty, A Schoolgirl 5 exemplaires
The Little School-Mothers: A Story for Girls 5 exemplaires
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy 5 exemplaires
The Scamp Family: A Story for Girls 4 exemplaires
Queen of the Day and Other Stories 4 exemplaires
The Darling of the School 4 exemplaires
Mou-Setsé: A Negro Hero / The Orphans' Pilgrimage 4 exemplaires
The Chesterton Girl Graduates: A Story for Girls 4 exemplaires
Beyond the Blue Mountains 4 exemplaires
A Little Silver Trumpet 4 exemplaires
The Temptation of Olive Latimer 4 exemplaires
A Madcap 4 exemplaires
The Warder of the Door 4 exemplaires
Dot and Her Treasures 3 exemplaires
Bad little Hannah : a story for girls 3 exemplaires
Hermie's Rose-Buds and Other Stories 3 exemplaires
The Golden Apple and Other Stories — Contributeur — 3 exemplaires
Seven Maids 3 exemplaires
Queen Rose 3 exemplaires
The Scamp and I: A Story of City Byways 3 exemplaires
Tic-Tac-Too and Butterfly Valley 3 exemplaires
Andrew Harvey's Wife 3 exemplaires
A Princess of the Gutter 3 exemplaires
The Daughter of a Soldier 3 exemplaires
A Handful of Silver 3 exemplaires
A Girl of High Adventure 3 exemplaires
Better Than Riches 3 exemplaires
Cosey Corner: Or How They Kept a Farm 3 exemplaires
Peggy from Kerry 3 exemplaires
The Queen of Joy 3 exemplaires
A Soldier of Fortune 3 exemplaires
The Girls of King's Royal 2 exemplaires
A Band of Mirth 2 exemplaires
The Red Cap of Liberty 2 exemplaires
Her Happy Face 2 exemplaires
Loveday: The Story of an Heiress 2 exemplaires
From the Hand of the Hunter 2 exemplaires
The House of Surprises: A Story for Girls 2 exemplaires
Madge Mostyn's Nieces 2 exemplaires
The Girl and Her Fortune 2 exemplaires
The Other Woman 2 exemplaires
Old Readymoney's Daughter 2 exemplaires
The Fairy Godmother 2 exemplaires
Virginia 2 exemplaires
The Girls of Castle Rocco: A Home Story for Girls 2 exemplaires
A Race With the Sun 2 exemplaires
The Girls of Abinger Close 2 exemplaires
The Lady of Delight 2 exemplaires
Nurse Charlotte 2 exemplaires
Four On an Island 2 exemplaires
Those Boys 2 exemplaires
A Bunch of Cousins and The Barn Boys 2 exemplaires
Lady Anne 2 exemplaires
A Brave Poor Thing 2 exemplaires
Pretty-Girl and the Others 2 exemplaires
The Home of Silence 2 exemplaires
Mother Herring's Chicken 2 exemplaires
The Fountain of Beauty 2 exemplaires
Love's Cross Roads 2 exemplaires
Aylwyn's Friends 2 exemplaires
Blue of the Sea 2 exemplaires
Hetty Beresford 2 exemplaires
'Ruffles' 2 exemplaires
The Oracle of Maddox Street 2 exemplaires
The Witch Maid 2 exemplaires
Silenced 2 exemplaires
Lettie's Last Home 2 exemplaires
The Cleverest Woman in England 2 exemplaires
In an Iron Grip: A Novel 2 exemplaires
Little Mary and Other Stories 2 exemplaires
Hepsy Gipsy 2 exemplaires
The Beresford Prize 2 exemplaires
Poor Miss Carolina 2 exemplaires
A Farthingful 2 exemplaires
The O'Donnells of Inchfawn 2 exemplaires
A Dweller In Tents 2 exemplaires
The Squire's Little Girl 2 exemplaires
Dorothy's Story; or, Great St. Benedict's 2 exemplaires
The Passion of Kathleen Duveen 2 exemplaires
The Doctor's Children 2 exemplaires
For Dear Dad 2 exemplaires
Oceana's Girlhood 2 exemplaires
The Medicine Lady 2 exemplaires
The Colonel's Conquest 2 exemplaires
The Colonel and the Boy 2 exemplaires
Catalina - Art Student 2 exemplaires
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel 2 exemplaires
Marigold 2 exemplaires
A Band of Three 2 exemplaires
Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will 2 exemplaires
Cave Perilous 2 exemplaires
Wheels of Iron 2 exemplaires
Castle Poverty 2 exemplaires
The Wooing of Monica 2 exemplaires
Wages 2 exemplaires
That Brilliant Peggy 2 exemplaires
The Children's Pilgrimage 1 exemplaire
Happy Hearts and Merry Eyes: A Book of Stories and Verses — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Andrew Sargeant's Wedding 1 exemplaire
Little Folks 1 exemplaire
Black Shoes and Blue 1 exemplaire
Happy Playmates: A Volume of Original Pictures, Stories and Verses — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Betty A School Girl 1 exemplaire
The Dead Hand 1 exemplaire
Merry Winter-Time 1 exemplaire
Sarah's Mother 1 exemplaire
Nobody's Neighbours 1 exemplaire
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 exemplaire
The Pearl 1 exemplaire
Girl of the people 1 exemplaire
In Time of Roses 1 exemplaire
Cassie and Little Mary 1 exemplaire
Een School van Zeven Meisjes 1 exemplaire
Girls of the True Blue 1 exemplaire
Dora Deane (The arm chair library, no. 95) 1 exemplaire
Playmates : a story for girls 1 exemplaire
Good Luck 1 exemplaire
Little Trouble-the-House 1 exemplaire
Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Girls 1 exemplaire
La oveja negra 1 exemplaire
Francis Kane's Fortune 1 exemplaire
Daddy's girl ; A world of girls 1 exemplaire
The witch maid 1 exemplaire
Mrs. Reid's Terror 1 exemplaire
En ulykkelig læge 1 exemplaire
Cave Perilous 1 exemplaire
Robina en el colegio; Robina en vacaciones 1 exemplaire
A Girl of the People 1 exemplaire
The girls of Mrs. Pritchird's school 1 exemplaire
Stories from the Old Old Bible 1 exemplaire
Margaret 1 exemplaire
Fingertips 1 exemplaire
The Secrets of the Dead 1 exemplaire
A Maid of Mystery 1 exemplaire
Love Triumphant 1 exemplaire
The Lady Cake-Maker 1 exemplaire
The Adventures of Miranda 1 exemplaire
At the Back of the World 1 exemplaire
Resurgam 1 exemplaire
Rosebury 1 exemplaire
The Burden of Her Youth 1 exemplaire
By Mutual Consent 1 exemplaire
A Stumble by the Way 1 exemplaire
Confessions of a Court Milliner 1 exemplaire
Drift 1 exemplaire
Through Peril for a Wife 1 exemplaire
The Blue Diamond 1 exemplaire
Little Wife Hester 1 exemplaire
Mary Gifford, M.B. 1 exemplaire
An Oak Coffin 1 exemplaire
Without Witnesses 1 exemplaire
Followed 1 exemplaire
The Outside Ledge 1 exemplaire
Where the Shoe Pinches 1 exemplaire
The Two Sisters 1 exemplaire
The Way of a Woman 1 exemplaire
The Siren 1 exemplaire
The Desire of Men 1 exemplaire
All Sorts 1 exemplaire
An Adventuress 1 exemplaire
Bess of Delany's 1 exemplaire
His Mascot 1 exemplaire
The Maid Indomitable 1 exemplaire
Miss Gwendoline 1 exemplaire
The A.B.C. Girl 1 exemplaire
Micah Faraday 1 exemplaire
Corporal Violet 1 exemplaire
Desborough's Wife 1 exemplaire
Twenty-Four Hours 1 exemplaire
The Soul of Margaret Rand 1 exemplaire
Mother and Son 1 exemplaire
A Girl of To-Day 1 exemplaire
Lord and Lady Kitty 1 exemplaire
Little Josephine 1 exemplaire
The House of Black Magic 1 exemplaire
The Great Lord of Masareene 1 exemplaire
Elizabeth's Prisoner 1 exemplaire
Greater Than Gold 1 exemplaire
Belinda Treherne 1 exemplaire
The Necklace of Parmona 1 exemplaire
The Face of Juliet 1 exemplaire
The Love of Susan Cardigan 1 exemplaire
Victory 1 exemplaire
The Heart of Helen 1 exemplaire
The Maid with the Goggles 1 exemplaire
The Curse of the Feverals 1 exemplaire
The Red Ruth 1 exemplaire
Kindred Spirits 1 exemplaire
The Courtship of Sybil 1 exemplaire
I Will Sing a New Song 1 exemplaire
The Aim of Her Life 1 exemplaire
A Lovely Fiend and Other Stories 1 exemplaire
Brother or Husband 1 exemplaire
The Pursuit of Penelope 1 exemplaire
The Stormy Petrel 1 exemplaire
The Rebellion of Lil Carrington 1 exemplaire
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In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Contributeur — 89 exemplaires
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 (1968) — Contributeur, quelques éditions — 52 exemplaires
The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women (2011) — Contributeur — 48 exemplaires
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Contributeur — 42 exemplaires
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others (2008) — Contributeur — 32 exemplaires
The Gentlewomen of Evil: An Anthology of Rare Supernatural Stories from the Pens of Victorian Ladies, (1967) — Contributeur — 28 exemplaires
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Contributeur — 27 exemplaires
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Contributeur — 23 exemplaires
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Contributeur — 21 exemplaires
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Contributeur — 13 exemplaires
Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors (2015) — Auteur, quelques éditions — 8 exemplaires
4 Detectives: Miss Madelyn Mack, Violet Strange, Miss Van Snoop, Florence Cusack (2012) — Contributeur — 4 exemplaires
The Lady Detectives: Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Toulmin Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade
- Date de naissance
- 1844-06-05
- Date de décès
- 1914-10-26
- Lieu de sépulture
- Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England, UK
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- Ireland
UK - Lieu de naissance
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
- Lieu du décès
- 20 Lathbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
Dulwich, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Professions
- Magazine editor (Atalanta)
writer
girls' school story author - Relations
- Eustace, Robert (writing partner)
- Notice de désambigüisation
- L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 322
- Aussi par
- 51
- Membres
- 1,857
- Popularité
- #13,859
- Évaluation
- 3.6
- Critiques
- 16
- ISBN
- 222
- Langues
- 2
- Favoris
- 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.… (plus d'informations)