Author:Elizabeth Thomasina Meade

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Elizabeth Thomasina Meade
(1844–1914)

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Better known as L. T. Meade; a prolific writer of girls' stories; also "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries; including several with male co-authors. The Eustace partnerships are notable for two female villains, Madame Sara (in The Sorceress of the Strand) and Madame Koluchy (in The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings).

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• The Beauforts (transcription project)

• The Autocrat of the Nursery (1884)
• A World of Girls: The Story of a School (1886) IA
• A Girl in Ten Thousand (1896)
• A Sweet Girl Graduate (1891, updated 1910 as Priscilla's Promise)

• A Princess of the Gutter (1895)
• The Voice of the Charmer (3v., 1895)
• A Son of Ishmael: A Clever Detective Story (1896)
• Under the Dragon Throne (with Robert K. Douglas, 1897)
• The Cleverest Woman in England (1898)
• On the Brink of a Chasm: A Record of Plot and Passion (1898)
• An Adventuress (1899)
• Wages: A Novel (1900)
• The Blue Diamond (1901)
• The Secret of the Dead (1901)
• Wheels of Iron (1901)
• Confessions of a Court Milliner (1902)
• A Double Revenge (1902)
• The Adventures of Miranda (1904)
• At the Back of the World (1904)
• A Maid of Mystery (1904)
• Silenced (1904)
• The Lady Cake-Maker (1904)
• His Mascot (1905)
• Bess of Delaney's (1905)
• A Golden Shadow (1906)
• From the Hand of the Hunter (1906)
• The Home of Sweet Content (1906)
• The Maid With the Goggles (1906)
• The Girl and Her Fortune (1906)
• The Chateau of Mystery (1907)
• The Curse of the Feverals (1907)
• The Home of Silence (1907)
• Kindred Spirits (1907)
• The Red Ruth (1907)
• The Courtship of Sybil (1908)
• The Fountain of Beauty (1909)
• I Will Sing a New Song (1909)
• The Necklace of Parmona (1909)
• The Pursuit of Penelope (1909)
• The Stormy Petrel (1909)
• Wild Heather (1909)
• The A. B. C. Girl (1910)
• Micah Faraday, Adventurer (1910)

• "The Under Dog" (1892, The Sunday Magazine, Vol 21) (novelette)
• "Jill" (1892, The Sunday Magazine, Vol 21) (novel)
• "Sir Edward Burne-Jones" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (55) (1895).
• In the Thick of the Fight (short stories, 1896, Cassel's Family magazine)
• An Up-to-Date Patient (1898 Apr 16, Toronto Saturday Night) (ss)
• "The Love Adventures of Primrose Ward" (1898, The Windsor Magazine)
  • Matthew Gray's Wife — The Heart of Victoria — The Diamond Crescent
• "A Horrible Fright" in The Strand Magazine, 8 (46) (1894).
• Girls' Schools of To-day
  • "Cheltenham College" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (51) (1895).
  • "St. Leonards and Great Harrowden Hall" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (52) (1895).
• Eyes of Terror (1903 Dec, The Strand Magazine)

• This Troublesome World (3vols, 1893)
• Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (First Series) (1893-94)
  • 1. "My First Patient" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (31)
  • 2. "My Hypnotic Patient" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (32)
  • 3. "Very Far West" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (33)
  • 4. "The Heir of Chartelpool" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (34)
  • 5. "A Death Certificate" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (35)
  • 6. "The Wrong Prescription" in The Strand Magazine, 6 (36)
  • 7. "The Horror of Studley Grange" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (37)
  • 8. "Ten Years' Oblivion" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (38)
  • 9. "An Oak Coffin" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (39)
  • 10. "Without Witnesses" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (40)
  • 11. "Trapped" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (41)
  • 12. "The Ponsonby Diamonds" in The Strand Magazine, 7 (42)
• Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (Second Series) (1895)
  • 1. "Creating a Mind" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (49) (1895)
  • 2. "The Seventh Step" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (50) (1895)
  • 3. "The Silent Tongue" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (51) (1895)
  • 4. "The Hooded Death" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (52) (1895)
  • 5. "The Red Bracelet" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (53) (1895)
  • 6. "Little Sir Noel" in The Strand Magazine, 9 (54) (1895)
  • 7. "A Doctor's Dilemma" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (55) (1895)
  • 8. "On a Charge of Forgery" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (56) (1895)
  • 9. "The Strange Case of Doctor Gascoigne" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (57) (1895)
  • 10. "With the Eternal Fires" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (58) (1895)
  • 11. "The Small House of Steven's Heath" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (59) (1895)
  • 12. "To Everyone His Own Fear" in The Strand Magazine, 10 (60) (1895)

• Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story (1896)
• Adventures of a Man of Science (1896–97, Strand magazine)
  • The Snake’s Eye —Ought He To Marry Her? — Lady Tregenna — The Sleeping Sickness — At the Steps of the Altar — The Panelled Bedroom — A Race With the Sun — The Man Who Smiled
• Where the Shoe Pinches (1900)
• A Race With the Sun (1901)
• Spangle-Winged (1901, Strand magazine (US only))

• Silenced (1897 Dec, Strand magazine)
• When the Air Quivered (1897 Dec, Strand magazine)
• The Gold Star Line (1900) short stories
  • as Stories of the Gold Star Line (1899, sl in Windsor magazine)
    • The Jewelled Cobra — The Cypher With the Human Key — The Rice-Paper Chart — In the Jaw of the Dog — The Yellow Flag — The Sacred Chank
• The Sorceress of the Strand (1902-03, Strand magazine) short stories
  • Madame Sara — The Blood-Red Cross — The Face of the Abbot — The Talk of the Town — The Bloodstone — The Teeth of the Wolf
• The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899)
  • At The Edge Of The Crater — The Winged Assassin — The Swing Of The Pendulum — The Luck Of Pitsey Hall — Twenty Degrees — The Star Shaped Marks — The Iron Circlet — The Mystery Of The Strong Room — The Bloodhound — The Doom
• The D Line 1899, Windsor magazine (short story)
• Followed (1900 Dec, Strand magazine) (short story)
• "The Heart of a Mystery" (1901 sl, Windsor magazine)
  • Mademoiselle Delacourt — A Little Smoke — The Tiger's Claw — A Conjuring Trick — A Gallop with the Storm — The Lost Square
• The Room With the Blurred Faces (1901 Apr, Strand (US) magazine)
• The Man Who Disappeared (1901 Dec, Strand magazine)
• "The Toleration of Count Kinsky" (1904, Leslie's magazine) (short story)
• "The Face in the Dark," (1903, Harmsworth London magazine) (short story)
• Where the Air Quivered (1898)
• A Master of Mysteries (1898)
  • The Mystery of the Circular Chamber — The Warder of the Door — The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel — The Eight-Mile Lock — How Siva Spoke — To Prove an Alibi
• "The Secret of Emu Plain" (1898) (short story, sequel to Master of Mysteries) (Included in The Oracle of Maddox Street)
• The Sanctuary Club (1900)
  • as Stories of the Sanctuary Club (1899 sl, Strand magazine)
    • The Death Chair — A Visible Sound — The Diana sapphire — East of North — 'A Handful of Ashes' — The Secret of the Prison House
• Miss Florence Cusack mysteries (London Magazine, 1899-1901) librivox
  • Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will (1899) — The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur (1899) — A Terrible Railway Ride (1900) — The Outside Ledge (1900) — Mrs. Reid's Terror (1901)
• The Lost Square (1902)
• The Oracle of Maddox Street (1904) short stories
  • The Dead Hand — Finger Tips — Sir Penn Caryll's Engagement — The D Line — Eyes of Terror — The Secret of Emu Plain — The Black Ball — The Best Brother-in-Law in the World — The Ruby Bracelet — The Love Adventures of Primrose Ward

• ""Meade, L. T." (Mrs. Toulmin Smith)," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)