Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Boys and Girls
New York: NY Publishing, c1900.
Price: $18.00
Hardcover. Later. Good hardcover. Spine lean. Name on front endpaper. Corners rubbed and bent. Top edge of spine frayed. Spine brown. Gold gilt on top edges of pages. Top corners of pages rubbed down. some fading to cover. Please Note: This book has been transferred to Between the Covers from another database and might not be described to our usual standards. Please inquire for more detailed condition information.
Item #243492
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L.T. Meade
birth name: Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith
died: 10/26/1914
Biography
L.T. Meade was the most prolific writer of girls' books in the nineteenth century. She established the girls' school story with A World of Girls (1886), but only 30 of the approximately 280 books she authored during her forty-year writing career are school stories. Meade wrote in a wide variety of other genres for both juvenile and adult audiences, including "street arab" tales, historical adventure stories, fantasies, domestic stories, robinsonnades (island survival tales, a genre established by Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, 1719), nursing stories, detective tales, medical mystery novels, and crime stories. Between 1887 and 1893 she also edited the girls' magazine Atalanta. - Mavis Reimer, British Children's Writers, 1880-1914. Detroit: Gale Research, 1994.more