The Lady of the Forest: A Story for Girls (1892).Four on an Island: A Story of Adventure (1892, aka: A Book for the Little Folks).A Sweet Girl Graduate (1891, updated c.Just a Love Story (1890, repr 1900 as The Beauforts).Engaged to Be Married: A Tale of Today (1890, repr 1917 as Daughters of Today).Frances Kane's Fortune, What Gold Cannot Buy (1890).The Honorable Miss: The Story of an Old-Fashioned Town (2v., 1890).
Those Boys, a Story for All Little Fellows (189-?, 1912).The Little Princess of Tower Hill (1889).
Deb and the Duchess: A Story for Girls (1888, as.The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls (1887).
A World of Girls: The Story of a School (1886). Mou-Setse, a Negro Hero, with The Orphan's Pilgrimage (1880). Water Gipsies: A Story of Canal Life in England (1879, as. Benedict's: A Tale (1879, aka Dorothy's Story, or Great St. Outcast Robin, or Your Brother and Mine: A Cry from the Great City (1878). The Children’s Kingdom: The Story of a Great Endeavor (1878). Scamp and I: A Story/Study of City Byways (1872). List of her works Books for young readers Following the death of women's-rights pioneer and Pioneer Club founder Emily Langton Massingberd (1847–1897), Meade wrote a novel in 1898 based on her life titled The Cleverest Woman in England. Meade was a feminist and a member of the Pioneer Club. She was also the editor of a popular girls' magazine, Atalanta. One of her most unusual titles is Dumps A Plain Girl (1905). Meade and Eustace also created the occult detective and palmist Diana Marburg ("the Oracle of Maddox Street"), who first appeared in the US edition of Pearson's Magazine in 1902. The Eustace partnerships are notable for two female villains, Madame Sara (in The Sorceress of the Strand) and Madame Koluchy (the mastermind of a band of gangsters, in The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings). Her last co-author was Sir Robert Kennaway Douglas (her daughter's father-in-law) they produced only one book, in 1897. A year later she first teamed with Robert Eustace, and turned out eleven volumes with him. Clifford Halifax, with whom she first collaborated in 1893 and wrote six books. However, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors. She was primarily known for her books for young people, of which the most famous was A World of Girls, published in 1886. She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime, being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories.
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