Meta Mayne Reid (1905–1991) was a Northern Irish children's writer.
Early life and education
Meta Mayne Reid was born to Marcus and Elvina Hopkins in Woodlesford, Yorkshire in 1905 and grew up there although her family was from Ulster in Ireland. She had one sister, Audrey. She was educated at home through governesses before going to Leeds Girls' High School. Mayne Reid went on to attend Manchester University. Later she moved to Crawfordsburn in County Down when her parents returned to the north of Ireland and there she was married to Dr E. Mayne Reid.
Work It was in Ulster that she set most of her novels, both historical fiction and modern settings with a fantasy side. She wrote more than twenty children's novels as well as two novels for adults and one collection of poetry. Reid was involved with the Belfast chapter of PEN as both secretary and, from 1970 to 1972, president.
Bibliography Novels The Land Is Dear, 1936 Far-Off Fields Are Green, 1937
Children's books Phelim and the Creatures, 1952 Carrigmore Castle, 1954 All Because of Dawks, 1955 Dawks Does It Again, 1956 The Cuckoo at Coolnean, 1956 Tiffany and the Swallow Rhyme, 1956 Dawks on Robbers' Mountain, 1957 Dawks and the Duchess, 1958 Strangers in Carrigmore, 1958 The McNeills at Rathcapple, 1959 Storm on Kildoney, 1961 Sandy and the Hollow Book, 1961 The Tobermillin Oracle, 1962 With Angus in the Forest, 1963 The Tinkers' Summer, 1965 The Silver Fighting Cocks, 1966 The House at Spaniard's Bay, 1967 The Glen Beyond the Door, 1968 The Two Rebels, 1969 Beyond the Wide World's End, 1972 The Plotters of Pollnashee, 1973 Snowbound by the Whitewater, 1975 The Noguls and the Horse, 1976 A Dog Called Scampi, 1980
Poetry No Ivory Tower, 1974
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