L V HALL was born in 1874 and died in 1946. She had a long and prolific career as a writer of over two hundred books, most of them women's fiction novels. L V HALL was a prolific novelist who wrote a wide range of books, from her first published novel for children in 1894 to the last in 1947. L V HALL wrote over 200 novels, many of which were bestsellers
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Her books have been translated into many languages and have been produced for television and radio. L V HALL was the author of more than thirty best-selling novels, all of which were published by George Newnes Ltd., London, between 1896 and her death in 1946. Most of the novels she wrote from 1896 to 1919 were for young people, including The Secret Garden (1902), The Little White Horse (1905), Westward Ho! (1910), Boy's Own Book of Adventure (1916), Boy's Book of Science (1917), Boy's Book of Nature (1917), Boy's Book of Sports (1917), Boy's Book of Heroes (1917), Boy's Book of Poetry (1918), Boy's Book of Poems (1920) and The Red Lodge Camping Camp (1920).
In the middle years L V HALL began to write books for girls under the pseudonym "L.V. Hall," beginning with The Secret Valley (1915) and ending with Dark Holidays: Witchcraft and Sorcery Stories for Girls (1927). In 1919 L V HALL published a series entitled "The Girls' Library" under the pseudonym "L.V.
Hall." There were ten volumes, each one being a collection of stories about girls doing things—playing tennis, going to dances, getting engaged—that boys did as well as girls might do them. In 1926 L V HALL published her last novel as "L.V. Hall." It was called The Wingless Victory: A Novel about Flying Machines which seems to have been written specifically for children, but also has themes that could appeal to teenagers as well as to younger readers.