![]() ![]() ![]() Meade, nineteenth-century women writers, Victorian girls’ books and magazines, and children’s literature. Janis Dawson received her doctorate in English literature from the University of Victoria (Canada). ![]() Her notable works include A Master of Mysteries (1898), The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (1899), and The Sorceress of the Strand (1903). In addition to her popular girls’ fiction, she also penned mystery stories, sensational fiction, romances, historical fiction, and adventure novels. Cork and started writing at an early age before establishing herself as one of the most prolific and bestselling authors of the day. Meade (1844-1914) was born in Bandon, Co. Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures is the first collection to showcase the best of her pioneering strange fiction. Her stories, widely published in popular fin de siècle magazines, included classic tales of the supernatural, but her specialty was medical or scientific mysteries featuring doctors, scientists, occult detectives, criminal women with weird powers, unusual medical interventions, fantastic scientific devices, murder, mesmerism, and manifestations of insanity. However, in 1898 the Strand Magazine, famous for its fictions of crime, detection, and the uncanny, proclaimed Meade one of its most popular writers for her contributions to its signature fare. Meade is now remembered, if at all, for her girls’ school stories. “I was in the dark and alone, yet not alone.”ĭespite her wide contributions to genre literature, Irish author L. ![]()
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