Metta Orred was an English writer of the 1870's and 1880's. Among her books are "Poems" (1874), "A Long Time Ago" (1876), "Berthold, and Other Poems" (1878), "Honor's Worth; or, The Cost of a Vow" (1878), "Ave (all' Anima mea)" (1880), and "A Dream Alphabet and Other Poems." Beadle reprinted only one of her stories.

REFERENCES: London Directories, 1893 to 1904; Athenaeum, August 24, 1878, 232, review of her poems.

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