She developed an early ambition to write, a prospect which horrified her father. Elizabeth Thomasina Meade was born in County Cork, Ireland in 1844, and was the eldest daughter of a Protestant clergyman. Wrote over 280 books, as well as short stories and articles for magazines such as The Strand Magazine and Lady's Pictorial.ĭuring her most productive period, she published more than ten novels a year. Meade (Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith) was a prolific writer of novels for girls and women. There was no lesion to be discovered upon which to base a different opinion, all the organs being healthy.L. The medical examination showed Wentworth to be in apparently perfect health at the time. He is absolutely puzzled to account for the death. Miles Gordon, the Wentworths' consulting physician, was telegraphed for, and was present at the post-mortem examination. There was, of course, an inquest and an autopsy. He parted with his family in the best of health and spirits, and wrote to them from time to time but a week ago they heard the news that he had died suddenly at an inn on the Merran. He was to paint certain parts of the river Merran and although he certainly did not need money, he seemed glad of an object for a good ramble. He had a handsome commission from Barlow & Co., picture-dealers in the Strand. A month ago he started off alone on one of these tours. He never took much money with him, and always travelled as an apparently poor man. He has tramped about on foot, and visited odd, out-of-the-way nooks searching for subjects. Wentworth has been accustomed from time to time to go alone on sketching tours to different parts of the country. "Nothing whatever, as you will quickly perceive. "Had he anything to do with the death?" I interrupted. He has been to see me two or three times, and I must say frankly that I am not taken with his appearance." This man has spent the greater part of his life in Australia, is badly off, and evidently belongs to a rowdy set.
He was the heir to the Wentworth estates, and his death has caused aĬomplication of claims from a member of a collateral branch of the family, who, when the present squire dies, is entitled to the money.
He was, as you probably know, one of the most promising water-colour painters of the younger school, and his pictures in this year's Academy met with universal praise.
The only son, Archibald, the artist, has just died under most extraordinary circumstances. "It is connected with the family of the Wentworths. "The case is briefly as follows," he began. He lay back in his chair, folding his hands. "I will do my best for you, Edgcombe," I replied. "You know," he went on, "that I have often laughed at your special hobby, but it occurred to me yesterday that the experiences you have lived through may enable you to give me valuable assistance in this difficulty." "In the first place," he resumed, "I must ask you to regard the matter as confidential."
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