Isbn: 9781869402945 - unsettled spirit: the life and frontier fiction of edith lyttleton (2 resultados)

Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. Feels unread. G.B. Lancaster (the pen name of Edith Lyttleton) was a very successful novelist in the 1920s and 30s, but is now largely forgotten. This biography gives a picture of the harsh experience of a women writer in the first half of the 20th century, whose economic circumstances shaped her output.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 320 pages. A critical biography of the popular 1920s novelist G. B. Lancaster (the pen n ame of Edith Lyttleton), this book tells the moving story of her life and work. Sturm paints a fascinating picture of the harsh experience of a woman writer in the first half of the 20th century whose economic circumstances shaped much of h er output but who struggled nonetheless to move beyond the limits of potboilers toward more serious and original work. Editorial Reviews About the Author Terr y Sturm is a professor of English at the University of Auckland and the editor o f The Oxford History of New Zealand Literature. He was the chairman of the New Z ealand Literary Fund Advisory Committee and later the Queen Elizabeth II Arts Co uncil's Literature committee.…