Books with author L. T. MEADE (1854 - 1914)

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The Girls of St. Wode's tells the tale of the adventures of a young girl in her school. The tale focuses round the college of girls in St. Wode's, Wingfield. This is the school in every England where ladies who hope to recognize themselves must enroll to acquire instruction. The ladies derive from distinct kinds of society, but the tale focuses mainly of the activities of the Gilroy ladies and their sponsor, Mr. Parker. L. T. Meade was the fictitious name of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, a creative author of books for girls. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, to parents Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork. She then migrated to London, where she got married to Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. She started her writing career at the age of 17 and wrote more than 300 stories during her time, becoming very productive that not under 11 new stories in her byline were seen in the first short years after she died. She was mostly recognized for her stories for the younger ones, of which the very popular was A World of Girls, released in 1886. Although, she also drafted emotional and dramatic tales, devotional tales, classical tales, adventure, love stories, and detective novels, such as many of whom she co-wrote with male authors. The first of these was Dr. Clifford Halifax, with whom she first worked together in 1893; their stories totaled 6. A year after she first collaborated with Robert Eustace, and produced 11 books with him. She lastly co-wrote with Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas who was the father-in-law of her daughter; they published only one story, in 1897. The Eustace collaborations are remarkable for two women antagonists, Madame Sara in The Sorceress of the Strand and Madame Koluchy as the head person of a group of mobsters, in The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings.