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Title: Girls of the Forest

Author: L. T. Meade

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Language: English

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GIRLS OF THE FOREST

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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.

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MACLELLAN .N.Y. COMPANY
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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.

Among more than fifty novels she has written, dealing largely with
questions of home life, are: _A Knight of To-day_ (1877), _Bel-Marjory_
(1878), _Mou-setse: a Negro Hero_ (1880), _Mother Herring's Chickens_
(1881), _A London Baby: The Story of King Roy_ (1883), _Two Sisters_
(1884), _The Angel of Life_ (188