The Daughter of a Soldier: A Colleen of South Ireland

Book excerpt: This is the family story set in Ireland. It deals with everlasting troubles of inheritance and succession in a wealthy family. L. T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844–1914), a prolific writer of girls' stories.She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime,[2] being so prolific that no fewer than eleven new titles under her byline appeared in the first few years after her death. She was primarily known for her books for young people, of which the most famous was A World of Girls, published in 1886. However, she also wrote "sentimental" and "sensational" stories, religious stories, historical novels, adventure, romances, and mysteries, including several with male co-authors.