L. T. Meade, nom de plume de Elizabeth Thomasina Meade, née en 1844 à Bandon dans le Comté de Cork dans la province de Munster en Irlande et morte en 1914, est une femme de lettres irlandaise, auteure prolifique de roman pour la jeunesse et de roman policier.
Biographie Auteur prolifique de romans principalement pour jeunes filles, Dictionnaire des littératures policières, volume 2, .. Elle écrit plusieurs romans et nouvelles avec Clifford Halifax, et .
Pour Marc Madouraud, collaborateur du Dictionnaire des littératures policières : Dictionnaire des littératures policières, volume 2, ..
Traduite en français entre 1885 et 1922 (pour quelques romans pour enfants et nouvelles policières), elle est actuellement peu connue en France, où cependant plusieurs recueils de ses nouvelles mystérieuses ont été récemment publiés. Ainsi, on doit signaler que le recueil traduit par H. J. Magog, L'Oeil dans les ténèbres (Tallandier, 1911, traduction partielle (8 nouvelles sur 12) de Stories from the Diary of a Doctor, 1894) a été réédité et complété en 2023 sous le même titre (Ed. Mi Li Re Mi/Archives et documents), avec une postface et un dossier sur la collection qui l'accueillit en 1911, "Les Romans mystérieux".
Œuvre Romans Romans de littérature d'enfance et de jeunesse
Scamp and I: A Story/Study of City Byways (1872) Lettie's Last Home (1876) David’s Little Lad (1877) Water Lilies and Other Tales (1878) The Children’s Kingdom: The Story of a Great Endeavor (1878) Outcast Robin, or Your Brother and Mine: A Cry from the Great City (1878) Great St. Benedict’s: A Tale (1879) (autres titres : Dorothy's Story, Great St. Benedict's') Water Gipsies: A Story of Canal Life in England (1879) Dot and Her Treasures (1879) Andrew Harvey's Wife (1880) A Dweller in Tents (1880) Mou-Setse, a Negro Hero (1880) Mother Herring's Chicken (1881) The Children's Pilgrimage (1883) Scarlet Anemones (1884) The Autocrat of the Nursery (1884) The Angel of Love (1885) A Little Silver Trumpet (1885) A World of Girls: The Story of a School (1886) The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls (1887) Sweet Nancy (1887) Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Girls (1888) Nobody's Neighbors (1888) A Band of Three (1888) The Golden Lady (1889) Polly: A New-Fashioned Girl (1889) The Little Princess of Tower Hill (1889) Those Boys, a Story for All Little Fellows (189-?) The Honorable Miss: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Town (1890) Frances Kane's Fortune (1890) A Girl of the People (1890) Little Trouble-the-House (1890) Engaged to Be Married: A Tale of Today (1890) The Heart of Gold (1890) Dickory Dock (1890) Just a Love Story (1890) The Beresford Prize (1890) Marigold (1890) Hepsy Gipsy (1891) A Sweet Girl Graduate (1891) The Children of Wilton Chase (1891) Little Mary and Other Stories (1891) Bashful Fifteen (1892) Jill, A Flower Girl (1892) Four on an Island: A Story of Adventure (1892) (autre titre A Book for the Little Folks) The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls (1892) Out of the Fashion (1892) Beyond the Blue Mountains (1893) Betty, A School Girl (1894) Red Rose and Tiger Lily (1894) Girls, New And Old (1895) The House of Surprises: A Story for Girls (1896) Good Luck: A Story for Girls (1896) A Girl in Ten Thousand (1896) Playmates: A Story for Boys and Girls (1896) The Merry Girls of England (1896) A Little Mother to the Others (1896) Wild Kitty: A School Story (1897) (autre titre A Story of Middleton School) Bad Little Hannah: A Story for Girls (1897) Catalina: Art Student (1897) A Handful of Silver (1897) A Bunch of Cherries: A Story of Cherry Court School (1898) Cave Perilous (1898) The Rebellion of Lil Carrington (1898) Mary Gifford, M.B./S. (1898) Me and My Dolls: The Story of the Joys and Troubles of Miss Bo-Peep and Her Doll Family (1898) A Public School Boy: A Memoir of H. S. Wristbridge (1899) The Desire of Men: An Impossibility (1899) The Odds and the Evens (1899) A Brave Poor Thing (1899) The Temptation of Olive Latimer (1899) Light o' the Morning: The Story of an Irish Girl (1899) How Nora Crena Saved Her Own (1900) The Time of Roses: A Story for Girls (1900) A Lonely Puppy, & The Tambourine Girl (1890) Daddy’s Girl (1900,) A Big Temptation and Other Stories (1900) Miss Nonentity: A Story for Girls (1900) The Girls of True Blue: A School Story (1901) The New Mrs. Lascelles (1901) The Cosey Corner (1901) A Sister of the Red Cross: A Tale of the South African War (1901) A Very Naughty Girl (1901) The Rebel of the School (1902) The Girls of the Forest (1902) The Squire's Little Girl (1902) Drift (1902) The Princess Who Gave Away All, The Naughty One of the Family (1902) Margaret (1902) Queen Rose: A Girl's Story (1902) The Manor School (1903) Peter the Pilgrim: The Story of a Boy and His Pet Rabbit (1903) The Witch Maid (1903) A Gay Charmer: A Story for Girls (1903) That Brilliant Peggy (1903) Tic-Tac-Too, Butterfly Valley (1903) Petronella, The Coming of Polly (1904) The Girls of MrsPritchard's School (1904) A Madcap (1904) Nurse Charlotte (1904) A Modern Tomboy: A Story for Girls (1904) A Bevy of Girls (1905) A Young Mutineer: A Story for Girls (1905) The Colonel and the Boy (1906) A Golden Shadow (1906) The Hill-Top Girl (1906) Turquoise and Ruby (1906) Sue: The Story of a Little Heroine and Her Friend (1906) Queen of the Day (1906) A Girl from America (1907) The Red Cap of Liberty (1907) The Little School-Mothers: A Story for Girls (1907)The Scamp Family: A Story for Girls (1907) Three Girls from School (1907) The Lady of Jerry Boy's Dreams: A Story for Girls (1907) The Court Harman Girls (1908) Betty of the Rectory (1908) Sarah's Mother (1908) The School Queens: A Story for Girls (1908/10) Blue of the Sea (1909) Blue Shoes and Black (1909) Daddy's Boy (1909) Betty Vivian: A Story of Haddo Court School (1910) Rosa Regina: A Story for Girls (1910) Nance Kennedy (1910) Pretty-Girl and the Others (1910) Their Little Mother: A Story for Girls (1910) The Girls of Merton College (1911) For Dear Dad: A Story for Girls (1911) Corporal Violet (1912) How It All Came Round (1912) Kitty O'Donovan: A School Story (1912) The Chesterton Girl Graduates: A Story for Girls (1913) The Girls of King's Royal: A Story for Girls (1913) The School Favorite: A School Girls Story (1913) Golden Hours Story Book (1913) A Band of Mirth (1914) The Wooing of Monica (1914) The Queen of Joy (1914) The Girls of Castle Rocco: A Home Story for Girls (1914) Greater Than Gold (1915) The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland (1915) Jill, the Irresistible (1915) Winter Fun for Merry Hearts (1915) Hollyhock: A Spirit of Mischief (1916) Better Than Riches (1917) Cassie, Little Mary (1919)
Romans policiers Romans coécrits avec Clifford Halifax This Troublesome World (1893) Dr. Rumsey's Patient: A Very Strange Story (1896) Where the Shoe Pinches (1900) recueil de nouvelles A Race With the Sun (1901) recueil de nouvelles
Nouvelles coécrites avec Robert Eustace The Arrest of Captain Vandaleur: How Miss Cusack Discovered His Trick (1899) nouvelle Where the Air Quivered (1898) nouvelle A Master of Mysteries (1898) recueil de nouvelles Mr. Bovey's Unexpected Will (1899) nouvelle The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899) série de nouvelles The Gold Star Line (1899) série de nouvelles The Outside Ledge (1900) nouvelle The Sanctuary Club (1900) série de nouvelles The Sorceress of the Strand (1902) série de six nouvelles The Lost Square (1902) nouvelle The Face in the Dark (1903) nouvelle
Nouvelles coécrites avec Robert Kennaway Douglas Under the Dragon Throne (1897) série de nouvelles
Autres romans policiers
A Princess of the Gutter (1895) The Voice of the Charmer (1895) A Son of Ishmael: A Clever Detective Story (1896) 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 Dead Hand: Being the First of the Experiences of the Oracle of Maddox Street (1902) nouvelle Fingertips: One of the Sensational Experiences of Diana Marburg, the Oracle of Maddox Street (1902) nouvelle The Adventures of Miranda (1904) At the Back of the World (1904) A Maid of Mystery (1904) Silenced (1904) recueil de nouvelles The Lady Cake-Maker (1904) The Oracle of Maddox Street (1904) recueil de nouvelles 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) recueil de nouvelles Twenty-Four Hours: A Novel of Today (1911) The House of Black Magic (1912) The Great Lord Masareene (1913) The Passion of Kathleen Duveen (1913) Her Happy Face (1914) The Maid Indomitable (1916) The Detections of Miss [Florence] Cusack (1998) recueil de nouvelles
Autres romans
A Knight of Today (1877) Bel Marjory: A Tale (1878) Miss Toosey's Mission (1878) Laddie (1879) The Floating Light of Ringfinnan, and Guardian Angels (1880) A Band of Three (1882) A London Baby: The Story of King Roy (1882) How It All Came About (1883) Tip Cat (1884) The Two Sisters (1884) Our Little Ann: A Tale (1885) Merry Chimes for Happy Times (1886) Faithful Friends: Stories of Struggle and Victory (1886) Beforehand (1887) Letters to Our Working-Party (1887) The O'Donnells of Inchfawn (1887) Pen (1888) Poor Miss Carolina (1889) A Farthingful (1889) A Life for a Love: A Story of Today (1891) A Soldier of Fortune (1894) Kitty O'Hara (1895) The Least of These, and Other Stories (1895) The Heart of Helen (1896) The White Tzar (1896) The Way of a Woman (1897) The Secret of Emu Plain (1898) The Siren (1898) The Girl of St. Wode's (1898) All Sorts (1899) A Plucky Girl (1900) In a Time of Roses (1900) A Stumble by the Way (1901) The Blood-Red Cross (1902) nouvelle de la série "Madame Sara" Madame Sara (1902) série de six nouvelles The Face of the Abbot (1902) nouvelle de la série "Madame Sara" Through Peril for a Wife (1902) The Pursuit of Penelope (1902) The Burden of Her Youth (1903) Resurgam (1903) By Mutual Consent (1903) Followed (1903) nouvelle Rosebury (1903) Love Triumphant (1904) Castle Poverty (1904) Bride of Tomorrow (1904) Nurse Charlotte (1904) The Other Woman (1905) Dumps: A Plain Girl (1905) Willful Cousin Kate: A Girl's Story (1905) Old Readymoney's Daughter (1905) Little Wife Hester (1905) Loveday: The Story of an Heiress (1905) The Other Woman (1905) The Face of Juliet (1906) Victory (1906) In the Flower of Her Youth (1906) The Colonel’s Conquest (1907) Little Josephine (1907) The Lady of Delight (1907) The Love of Susan Cardigan (1907) The Aim of Her Life (1908) Hetty Beresford (1908) Brother or Husband (1909) A[y]lwyn's Friends (1909) Oceana's Girlhood (1909) The Princess of the Revels (1909) Belinda Treherne (1910) Sue, a Little Heroine (1910) A Girl of Today (1910) The Wild Irish Girl (1910) Lady Anne (1910) Miss Gwendoline (1910) Desborough's Wife (1911) The Doctor's Children (1911) The Soul of Margaret Rand (1911) The Girl from Spain (1911) Mother and Son (1911) A Bunch of Cousins and the Barn Boys (1911) Love's Cross Roads (1912) Lord and Lady Kitty (1912) Peggy from Kerry (1912) The Girls of Abinger Close (1913)