L. T. Meade

L. T. Meade (1844–1914) was the pen name of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, an Irish-born writer of fiction for girls and one of the most prolific authors of her time. The daughter of a Church of Ireland rector in County Cork, she moved to London, married and wrote some three hundred books. Her school stories, beginning with A World of Girls, helped establish the genre of the girls' school story, and she edited the magazine Atalanta. With medical collaborators she also wrote detective and mystery stories such as Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. Her other books include A Young Mutineer and Red Rose and Tiger Lily.