Elizabeth Thomasina Meade (413 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. No publisher date. Boards lightly soiled, minor wear to corners. Binding tight and square, pages clean, bright, and unmarked. 184 pp. EXCERPT: "You do not know what it means to me," she said. "When Dorothy talks of the full life, the keen interest, the battle, the thrill of living, I feel that I must go into it - I must." While Effie was speaking, Mrs. Staunton looked fixedly at her. There are moments which all mothers know, when they put themselves completely out of sight, when they blot themselves out, as it were. This time had come to Mrs. Staunton now. After a pause, she said, and her words came out even without a sigh: "The question, after all, is this, Effie: What will your father say?" "When he thinks it out carefully he will be pleased," replied Effie. "He must be interested in the profession I want to take up. How often - oh, how often, mother - has he groaned and sighed at the bad nursing which his patients get! You know you have always said, and he has said the same, that I am a born nurse. Won't he be proud and pleased when I come home and tell him all about the new ways in which things are done in London hospitals? You know there are six of us, and Agnes and Katie are growing up, and can take my place at home presently. Of course I know that father is quite the cleverest doctor in Whittington, but nobody gets ill here, and it is quite impossible to go on clothing and feeding six of us with no means at all. I do not think I am vain, mother, and I do not really care very much about dress, but mine is shabby, is it not? I think I should look pretty - as pretty as you must have looked long ago - if I were better dressed." "No dress can change your face," said Mrs. Staunton, with sudden passion. "You have the sweetest and dearest face in the world to me. When you go away the sunshine will go out of my life; but, my darling, my darling, I won't - you shall never have it to say that your mother stood in your way. I must think, however, of what your father will say to this. I can only warn you that if there is one person your father dreads and dislikes more than another, it is the modern girl. He said to me, 'Thank God, Effie has none of that hideous modernity about her. She is fairly good-looking; she does not think about Girton or Newnham, or any of the women's colleges; in short, she has no advanced ideas.'" "That is all he knows," replied Effie. "The fact is, I must and will do something to earn my living. You are sending George out into the world to win his spurs, and I am going to win mine." "In what way?" asked Mrs. Staunton. "You know you are not clever." "Dorothy thinks I can be a nurse, mother. May she come and see you, and talk it all over?" "There is no harm in talking it over," said Mrs. Staunton. "But now I wish you would go upstairs and help Susan to put the children to bed. You can bring baby downstairs if you like, and I will undress him.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. No date found.looks to be c.1910-20. Text unmarked with minimal page-turn soiling marks. Light damp stain along pages fore edge.does not go into text. Covers (green boards with illustration of woman with umbrella) show edge wear with rubbing/scuffing and bumped corners. Spine edge wear and is faded. Biding is still fairly tight. Previous owner's name on end paper. Heavily used but pages still quite legible/readable.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day!

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. no date given; (circa 1890) grey c w/pictorial inset on front, sticker mark, navy titles; lite wear at spine/tips; 350 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. R. Ford Nutter (illustrator). no date given (circa 1900?) ;maroon c w/[pictorial inset on front, somme scratching; illustrated end papers; 327 clean, unmarked pages+ads; owner's name.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. One of 300 books for girls written by the author, this volume is hard to place. There is no information on t.p. or copyright page and no gift inscription. The author died in 1914 but the d.j. depicts girls dressed and coifed in 1920s style. Because of the author's feminism (she was a member of the Pioneers Club and wrote a biography of its founder), her stories remained popular well into the 20th century. 244 p., clean and unmarked anywhere; binding firm; unfaded red boards well protected by d.j., which itself however has suffered many tears, open and closed--the lower portion of the spine panel is missing entirely. Back panel features a list of selections in the "Girls Prize Library.".

Pictorial Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. What appears to be an early 20th century reprint of one of Meade's girls' stories. No DJ, presumably as issued. Pictorial insert on the front board. Light green boards with green lettering and decoration. Light rubbing to the covers with some small holes in the lower right spine hinge and a larger on at the upper center of the spine. PON in neat script on the FFEP. A few soil spots on the fore edge of the pages and the margins of pages 42/43 at the spine. Otherwise the internals are clean and tight. A good or slightly better copy that presents better than it sounds.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. The Medicine Lady. Book.

Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. A Handful of Silver, Etc. Book.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 358 p., clean and unmarked anywhere on strong paper, mildly age-toned; binding firm; in absence of d.j. the colorful boards showing three lovely young women in early 20th century fashions in porch setting amid garden flowers, is lightly bumped at corners, sunned on spine, slightly rubbed at corners and faint reddish stain near fore-edge of front panel. The charm of this gentle feminist can be ascertained from the dedication: "This Story Is Dedicated, Without Their Permission, To All The Children Of Every Kingdom, Everywhere.".

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Nineteenth Thousand. Demy octavo, [18.75cm7.5inches], full fancy gilt-embossed Christmas red pictorial cloth, -as issued-, pp. 128 plus 32 pp. pubs adverts. Fully illustrated w/ photogravure plates, vignettes, &ct. . L. T. Meadewas the pseudonym ofElizabeth Thomasina Meade (18441914), a prolific writer of girls' stories. She began writing at 17 and produced over 280 books in her lifetime. She was primarily known for her books for young people, of which the most famous wasA World of Girls, published in 1886. Meade was a feminist and a member of thePioneer Club. Following the death of women's-rights pioneer and Pioneer Club founderEmily Langton Massingberd(18471897). Meade wrote a novel in 1898 based on her life entitledThe Cleverest Woman in England. In exceptionally good condition.

Small Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Pencil name on front endpaper. 1889 Small Hard Cover. 72 pp. 9 in OCLC. Brown cloth boards with illustration of child in a crib with a fallen dolly on front board. L.T. Meade was the pseudonym of Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith, a prolific writer of girls' stories. She was born in Bandon, County Cork, Ireland, daughter of Rev. R. T. Meade, of Nohoval, County Cork. She later moved to London, where she married Alfred Toulmin Smith in September 1879. - Internet Archive.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Grey buckram with black lettering and yellow, black and blue cover illustration of a girl. Edges rubbed, bumping and rubbing to head and heel of spine, tips of corners. Covers show scuffing, three small white spots to rear board. Hinge is almost broken at front endpaper. Text is clean and bright, no marks. Illustrated throughout.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Sold on behalf of Tavistock Museum, proceeds from the sale of this book will help support this charity. Pages lightly tanned, edges more so, binding a little shaken, else internally in good condition; cover is worn and rubbed, corners and backstrip in particular, gilt lettering and decoration dull. No wrapper. Fifth thousand.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Hardcover, (G/G), The New York Book Company, no date (prev. owner's note at front states "Dec. 23, 1914. rec,d") 177 pages, 5.25 in. x 7.5 in., hardcover, blue cloth with blue and black titles and decorations as well as color paste-down on front cover, spine ends bumped and worn with mild bumping and wear to corners, edges show slight wear and some faint fading, a little bit of minor chipping to blue in spine joints and one small area of chipping at middle of spine, covers very faintly scuffed and soiled, Good dust jacket with a little chipping loss at corners and spine ends as well as a tiny bit on front panel's hinge, jacket shows light soil and mild age-toning with two small and worn Christmas stickers (old) on front panel (at corners), dust jacket protected in new archival plastic cover, previous owners' brief ink & pencil names/inscriptions, 2 small short closed tears to paper of hinge at front endpapers - binding still sound, pages slightly age-toned, otherwise contents clean and tight, Book Good {Though showing its age a bit, this book is still quite charming, with its pretty plate on the front, and its jacket showing very nicely in its new cover.} (G/G) 4863 [Sss1017JA].

Edition Unstated. Near fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Slightest suggestion only of dust-dulling to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: 299 pages. Subjects: English fiction. 1 Kg.

Condition: New.

Condition: Like New. In unused condition, may show some slight shelf wear, but otherwise unread. This title was digitally scanned from a rare, out of print edition, and will have some visual artifacts from that process.

Paperback. Condition: New.

Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. On the Brink of a Chasm: A Record of Plot and Passion. Book.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

PF. Condition: New.

Condition: New. In.