L.T. Meade (1844–1914)
Autor von A Sweet Girl Graduate
Über den Autor
Hinweis zur Begriffsklärung:
(eng) L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
Reihen
Werke von L.T. Meade
The Court-Harman Girls 6 Exemplare
Daddy's Girl and Consuelo's Quest of Happiness 5 Exemplare
Dumps, A Plain Girl 5 Exemplare
Betty, A Schoolgirl 5 Exemplare
The Little School-Mothers: A Story for Girls 5 Exemplare
A London Baby: The Story of King Roy 5 Exemplare
The Scamp Family: A Story for Girls 4 Exemplare
Queen of the Day and Other Stories 4 Exemplare
The Darling of the School 4 Exemplare
The Chesterton Girl Graduates: A Story for Girls 4 Exemplare
Beyond the Blue Mountains 4 Exemplare
A Little Silver Trumpet 4 Exemplare
The Temptation of Olive Latimer 4 Exemplare
A Madcap 4 Exemplare
The Warder of the Door 4 Exemplare
Dot and Her Treasures 3 Exemplare
Bad little Hannah : a story for girls 3 Exemplare
Hermie's Rose-Buds and Other Stories 3 Exemplare
The Golden Apple and Other Stories — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
Seven Maids 3 Exemplare
Queen Rose 3 Exemplare
The Scamp and I: A Story of City Byways 3 Exemplare
Tic-Tac-Too and Butterfly Valley 3 Exemplare
Andrew Harvey's Wife 3 Exemplare
A Princess of the Gutter 3 Exemplare
The Daughter of a Soldier 3 Exemplare
A Handful of Silver 3 Exemplare
A Girl of High Adventure 3 Exemplare
Better Than Riches 3 Exemplare
Cosey Corner: Or How They Kept a Farm 3 Exemplare
Peggy from Kerry 3 Exemplare
The Queen of Joy 3 Exemplare
A Soldier of Fortune 3 Exemplare
The Girls of King's Royal 2 Exemplare
A Band of Mirth 2 Exemplare
The Red Cap of Liberty 2 Exemplare
Her Happy Face 2 Exemplare
Loveday: The Story of an Heiress 2 Exemplare
From the Hand of the Hunter 2 Exemplare
The House of Surprises: A Story for Girls 2 Exemplare
Madge Mostyn's Nieces 2 Exemplare
The Girl and Her Fortune 2 Exemplare
The Other Woman 2 Exemplare
Old Readymoney's Daughter 2 Exemplare
The Fairy Godmother 2 Exemplare
Virginia 2 Exemplare
A Race With the Sun 2 Exemplare
The Girls of Abinger Close 2 Exemplare
The Lady of Delight 2 Exemplare
Nurse Charlotte 2 Exemplare
Four On an Island 2 Exemplare
Those Boys 2 Exemplare
A Bunch of Cousins and The Barn Boys 2 Exemplare
Lady Anne 2 Exemplare
A Brave Poor Thing 2 Exemplare
Pretty-Girl and the Others 2 Exemplare
The Home of Silence 2 Exemplare
Mother Herring's Chicken 2 Exemplare
The Fountain of Beauty 2 Exemplare
Love's Cross Roads 2 Exemplare
Aylwyn's Friends 2 Exemplare
Blue of the Sea 2 Exemplare
Hetty Beresford 2 Exemplare
'Ruffles' 2 Exemplare
The Oracle of Maddox Street 2 Exemplare
The Witch Maid 2 Exemplare
Silenced 2 Exemplare
Lettie's Last Home 2 Exemplare
The Cleverest Woman in England 2 Exemplare
In an Iron Grip: A Novel 2 Exemplare
Little Mary and Other Stories 2 Exemplare
Hepsy Gipsy 2 Exemplare
The Beresford Prize 2 Exemplare
Poor Miss Carolina 2 Exemplare
A Farthingful 2 Exemplare
The O'Donnells of Inchfawn 2 Exemplare
A Dweller In Tents 2 Exemplare
The Squire's Little Girl 2 Exemplare
Dorothy's Story; or, Great St. Benedict's 2 Exemplare
The Passion of Kathleen Duveen 2 Exemplare
The Doctor's Children 2 Exemplare
For Dear Dad 2 Exemplare
Oceana's Girlhood 2 Exemplare
The Medicine Lady 2 Exemplare
The Colonel's Conquest 2 Exemplare
The Colonel and the Boy 2 Exemplare
Catalina - Art Student 2 Exemplare
A Son of Ishmael: A Novel 2 Exemplare
Marigold 2 Exemplare
A Band of Three 2 Exemplare
Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will 2 Exemplare
Cave Perilous 2 Exemplare
Wheels of Iron 2 Exemplare
Castle Poverty 2 Exemplare
The Wooing of Monica 2 Exemplare
Wages 2 Exemplare
That Brilliant Peggy 2 Exemplare
The Children's Pilgrimage 1 Exemplar
Happy Hearts and Merry Eyes: A Book of Stories and Verses — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Andrew Sargeant's Wedding 1 Exemplar
Little Folks 1 Exemplar
Black Shoes and Blue 1 Exemplar
Happy Playmates: A Volume of Original Pictures, Stories and Verses — Mitwirkender — 1 Exemplar
Betty A School Girl 1 Exemplar
The Dead Hand 1 Exemplar
Merry Winter-Time 1 Exemplar
Sarah's Mother 1 Exemplar
Nobody's Neighbours 1 Exemplar
Short Ghost and Horror Collection 067 1 Exemplar
The Pearl 1 Exemplar
Girl of the people 1 Exemplar
In Time of Roses 1 Exemplar
Cassie and Little Mary 1 Exemplar
Een School van Zeven Meisjes 1 Exemplar
Girls of the True Blue 1 Exemplar
Dora Deane (The arm chair library, no. 95) 1 Exemplar
Playmates : a story for girls 1 Exemplar
Good Luck 1 Exemplar
Little Trouble-the-House 1 Exemplar
Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Girls 1 Exemplar
La oveja negra 1 Exemplar
Francis Kane's Fortune 1 Exemplar
Daddy's girl ; A world of girls 1 Exemplar
The witch maid 1 Exemplar
Mrs. Reid's Terror 1 Exemplar
En ulykkelig læge 1 Exemplar
Cave Perilous 1 Exemplar
Robina en el colegio; Robina en vacaciones 1 Exemplar
A Girl of the People 1 Exemplar
The girls of Mrs. Pritchird's school 1 Exemplar
Stories from the Old Old Bible 1 Exemplar
Margaret 1 Exemplar
Fingertips 1 Exemplar
The Secrets of the Dead 1 Exemplar
A Maid of Mystery 1 Exemplar
Love Triumphant 1 Exemplar
The Lady Cake-Maker 1 Exemplar
The Adventures of Miranda 1 Exemplar
At the Back of the World 1 Exemplar
Resurgam 1 Exemplar
Rosebury 1 Exemplar
The Burden of Her Youth 1 Exemplar
By Mutual Consent 1 Exemplar
A Stumble by the Way 1 Exemplar
Confessions of a Court Milliner 1 Exemplar
Drift 1 Exemplar
Through Peril for a Wife 1 Exemplar
The Blue Diamond 1 Exemplar
Little Wife Hester 1 Exemplar
Mary Gifford, M.B. 1 Exemplar
An Oak Coffin 1 Exemplar
Without Witnesses 1 Exemplar
Followed 1 Exemplar
The Outside Ledge 1 Exemplar
Where the Shoe Pinches 1 Exemplar
The Two Sisters 1 Exemplar
The Way of a Woman 1 Exemplar
The Siren 1 Exemplar
The Desire of Men 1 Exemplar
All Sorts 1 Exemplar
An Adventuress 1 Exemplar
Bess of Delany's 1 Exemplar
His Mascot 1 Exemplar
The Maid Indomitable 1 Exemplar
Miss Gwendoline 1 Exemplar
The A.B.C. Girl 1 Exemplar
Micah Faraday 1 Exemplar
Corporal Violet 1 Exemplar
Desborough's Wife 1 Exemplar
Twenty-Four Hours 1 Exemplar
The Soul of Margaret Rand 1 Exemplar
Mother and Son 1 Exemplar
A Girl of To-Day 1 Exemplar
Lord and Lady Kitty 1 Exemplar
Little Josephine 1 Exemplar
The House of Black Magic 1 Exemplar
The Great Lord of Masareene 1 Exemplar
Elizabeth's Prisoner 1 Exemplar
Greater Than Gold 1 Exemplar
Belinda Treherne 1 Exemplar
The Necklace of Parmona 1 Exemplar
The Face of Juliet 1 Exemplar
The Love of Susan Cardigan 1 Exemplar
Victory 1 Exemplar
The Heart of Helen 1 Exemplar
The Maid with the Goggles 1 Exemplar
The Curse of the Feverals 1 Exemplar
The Red Ruth 1 Exemplar
Kindred Spirits 1 Exemplar
The Courtship of Sybil 1 Exemplar
I Will Sing a New Song 1 Exemplar
The Aim of Her Life 1 Exemplar
A Lovely Fiend and Other Stories 1 Exemplar
Brother or Husband 1 Exemplar
The Pursuit of Penelope 1 Exemplar
The Stormy Petrel 1 Exemplar
The Rebellion of Lil Carrington 1 Exemplar
Zugehörige Werke
Die Rivalen des Sherlock Holmes I. Viktorianische Detektivgeschichten. (1970) — Mitwirkender — 314 Exemplare
Mitternacht über dem Schloß Große Detektivgeschichten des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts (1973) — Mitwirkender — 189 Exemplare
Detection by Gaslight: 14 Victorian Detective Stories (Dover Thrift Editions) (1997) — Mitwirkender — 183 Exemplare
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: A Collection of Victorian Detective Tales (2008) — Mitwirkender — 107 Exemplare
Crime On Her Mind: Fifteen Stories of Female Sleuths from the Victorian Era to the Forties (1975) — Mitwirkender — 103 Exemplare
In the Shadow of Agatha Christie: Classic Crime Fiction by Forgotten Female Writers, 1850-1917 (2018) — Mitwirkender — 90 Exemplare
In the Shadow of Edgar Allan Poe: Classic Tales of Horror, 1816-1914 (2015) — Mitwirkender — 89 Exemplare
Science Fiction by Gaslight: A History and Anthology of Science Fiction in the Popular Magazines, 1891-1911 (1968) — Mitwirkender, einige Ausgaben — 52 Exemplare
The Dreaming Sex: Early Tales of Scientific Imagination by Women (2011) — Mitwirkender — 48 Exemplare
The Lifted Veil: The Book of Fantastic Literature by Women 1800-World War II (1806) — Mitwirkender — 42 Exemplare
Gaslit Horror: Stories by Robert W. Chambers, Lafcadio Hearn, Bernard Capes and Others (2008) — Mitwirkender — 32 Exemplare
Mistresses of Mystery: Two Centuries of Suspense Stories by the Gentle Sex (1973) — Mitwirkender — 27 Exemplare
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Mitwirkender — 23 Exemplare
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Mitwirkender — 21 Exemplare
Masters of the Macabre: An Anthology of Mystery, Horror, and Detection (1975) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
Giving Up the Ghosts: Short-Lived Occult Detective Series by Six Renowned Authors (2015) — Autor, einige Ausgaben — 8 Exemplare
4 Detectives: Miss Madelyn Mack, Violet Strange, Miss Van Snoop, Florence Cusack (2012) — Mitwirkender — 4 Exemplare
The Lady Detectives: Four BBC Radio 4 Crime Dramatisations — Mitwirkender — 2 Exemplare
Getagged
Wissenswertes
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Toulmin Smith, Elizabeth Thomasina Meade
- Geburtstag
- 1844-06-05
- Todestag
- 1914-10-26
- Begräbnisort
- Wolvercote Cemetery, Oxford, England, UK
- Geschlecht
- female
- Nationalität
- Ireland
UK - Geburtsort
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
- Sterbeort
- 20 Lathbury Road, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK
- Wohnorte
- Bandon, County Cork, Ireland
Dulwich, London, England, UK
Oxford, Oxfordshire, England, UK - Berufe
- Magazine editor (Atalanta)
writer
girls' school story author - Beziehungen
- Eustace, Robert (writing partner)
- Hinweis zur Identitätsklärung
- L. T. Meade co-authored a number of notable mystery novels with Robert Eustace.
Mitglieder
Rezensionen
Listen
Auszeichnungen
Dir gefällt vielleicht auch
Nahestehende Autoren
Statistikseite
- Werke
- 322
- Auch von
- 51
- Mitglieder
- 1,857
- Beliebtheit
- #13,859
- Bewertung
- 3.6
- Rezensionen
- 16
- ISBNs
- 222
- Sprachen
- 2
- Favoriten
- 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.… (mehr)