Some of her books highlighted the social needs of "street arabs" (homeless children) and encouraged people to donate clothing and food to them.
[1] Georgina was the fourth child of a solicitor, William Meyrick (1809 or 1810–1898), in Bayswater, London, and his wife Eliza (née James, born 1817 or 1818).
It tells of poverty and advocates practical philanthropy through the story of a Sunday school teacher reforming an orphan known as Daddy Long Legs.
[3] The success of Nothing to Nobody encouraged "Brenda" to write a second, similarly didactic story, about two orphan boys in East London, of whom the younger dies: Froggy's Little Brother (c. 1875).
[1] The family retired to Lyme Regis in Dorset, where she died at her home, Corner Cottage, on 27 December 1933 and was buried in the cemetery there.