Short Biography: L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1854-1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland. She began writing at 17 and produced over 300 books in her lifetime. Her most famous book was A World of Girls, published in 1886. She was also the editor of a popular girls' magazine, Atalanta. She also co-authored a number of notable mystery novels. With Robert Eustace, she wrote The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings, which featured a gang headed by a female criminal mastermind, Madame Koluchy. Also with Eustace, she wrote The Sorceress of the Strand, which had another female criminal, Madame Sara. With Clifford Halifax, M.D., she wrote Stories from the Diary of a Doctor. (Wikipedia.org)
Partial Book List:
- Betty Vivian
A Story of Haddo Court School - A Big Temptation
- A Bunch of Cherries
A Story of Cherry Court School - The Children of Wilton Chase
- The Children's Pilgrimage
- Daddy's Girl
- Dickory Dock
- Frances Kane's Fortune
- A Girl in Ten Thousand
- A Girl of the People
- Girls of the Forest
- Good Luck
- Hollyhock
A Spirit of Mischief - The Honorable Miss
A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town - How It All Came Round
- Light O' the Morning
- A Little Mother to the Others
- A Master of Mysteries
- A Modern Tomboy
A Story for Girls - The Palace Beautiful
A Story for Girls - Polly A New-Fashioned Girl
- The Rebel of the School
- Red Rose and Tiger Lily
or, In a Wider World - The School Queens
- Sue, A Little Heroine
- A Sweet Girl Graduate
- The Time of Roses
- Wild Kitty
- A World of Girls
The Story of a School - A Young Mutineer
L.M. Montgomery
Short Biography:Lucy Maud Montgomery CBE, (always called "Maud" by family and friends) and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, (30 November 1874–24 April 1942) was a Canadian author, best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Once published, Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success. The central character, Anne, an orphaned girl, made Montgomery famous in her lifetime and gave her an international following.[1] The first novel was followed by a series of sequels with Anne as the central character. The novels became the basis for the highly acclaimed 1985 CBC television miniseries, Anne of Green Gables and several other television movies and programs, including Road to Avonlea, which ran in Canada and the U.S. from 1990-1996.
Book List:
- Kilmeny of the Orchard (1910)
- The Story Girl (1911)
- The Golden Road (1913) (sequel to The Story Girl)
- Anne of the Island (1915) (sequel to Anne of Avonlea)
- Anne's House of Dreams (1917) (sequel to Anne of Windy Poplars)
- Rainbow Valley (1919) (sequel to Anne of Ingleside)
- Rilla of Ingleside (1921) (sequel to Rainbow Valley)
- Emily of New Moon (1923)
- Emily Climbs (1925) (sequel to Emily of New Moon)
- The Blue Castle (1926)
- Emily's Quest (1927) (sequel to Emily Climbs)
- Magic for Marigold (1929)
- A Tangled Web (1931)
- Pat of Silver Bush (1933)
- Mistress Pat (1935) (sequel to Pat of Silver Bush)
- Anne of Windy Poplars (1936) (sequel to Anne of the Island)
- Jane of Lantern Hill (1937)
- Anne of Ingleside (1939) (sequel to Anne's House of Dreams)
- The Blythes Are Quoted, edited by Benjamin Lefebvre (2009) (sequel to Rilla of Ingleside)