Elizabeth Meeke (13 November 1761 – c. October 1826) was a prolific English author, translator and children's writer, and the stepsister of Frances Burney.
Others include The Abbey of Clugny, The Mysterious Wife, Anecdotes of the Altamont Family and Which is the Man?
The third edition of Chamber's Cyclopaedia of English Literature in 1903 disparaged her work: The novels are worthless and would be quite forgotten but for the mention of them in the Life of Macaulay, who in his younger days at least "all but knew them by heart".
According to Macaulay's sister the most of them turn on the fortunes of some young man in a very low rank of life who ultimately proves to be the son of a duke.
Anthony Mandai describes Meeke as "the most prolific novelist of the age," and argues for her complicated, yet central, role as a professional author through the watershed decades during which she wrote.