Girls of the Forest

GIRLS OF THE FOREST
GIRLS OF THE FOREST
L. T. MEADE
AUTHOR OF ALWYN’S FRIENDS, BEYOND THE BLUE MOUNTAINS,
GOOD LUCK, PLAYMATES, PRETTY GIRL AND
THE OTHERS, THE PALACE BEAUTIFUL, ETC.
AKRON, OHIO
MACLELLAN ·N·Y· COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
BIOGRAPHY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
L. T. Meade (Mrs. Elizabeth Thomasina Smith), English novelist, was born at Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, 1854, the daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, rector at Novohal, County Cork, and married Toulmin Smith in 1879. She wrote her first book, Lettie’s Last Home , at the age of 17, and since then has been an unusually prolific writer, her stories attaining wide popularity on both sides of the Atlantic.
She worked in the British Museum, lived in Bishopsgate Without, making special studies of East London life, which she incorporated in her stories. She edited the Atlanta , a magazine, for six years. Her pictures of girls, especially in the influence they exert on their elders, are drawn with intuitive fidelity, pathos, love, and humor, as in Girls of the Forest , flowing easily from her pen. She has traveled extensively, and is devoted to motoring and other outdoor sports.