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  1. She was New Zealand's most widely read writer of the first half of the twentieth century. She wrote about the formation of colonial identity and the legacy of imperialism in the lives of settlers and their descendants. Her settings were Australia, Canada and New Zealand. She was influenced by Rudyard Kipling and R. L. Stevenson.

  2. Lyttleton, Edith Joan. 18731945. Novelist, short story writer. This biography, written by Terry Sturm, was first published in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography in 1996. The author of a dozen novels and many scores of short stories that were widely read in New Zealand during the first four decades of the twentieth century, Edith Joan ...

  3. Australasian author; She was New Zealand's most widely read writer of the first half of the twentieth century.She wrote about the formation of colonial identity and the legacy of imperialism in the lives of settlers and their descendants.

  4. Edith Lyttleton left New Zealand for the last time in 1938, travelling to Halifax, Nova Scotia, to research what was to be her last book, the historical romance Grand parade. During the Second World War she found herself trapped in England, unable to travel back to New Zealand because of seriously deteriorating health.

  5. ISBN: 9781869402945. Available in Ebook. Edith Lyttleton, under the name of G. B. Lancaster, wrote over a dozen novels and some 250 short stories, mostly narratives of romance and adventure set in the remote back country of New Zealand, Australia and Canada.

  6. Aug 8, 2023 · This essay is about an episode in the publishing history of one of New Zealand's most widely read fiction writers, outside the country, during the first half of the 20th century: the popular novelist and short story writer, Edith Lyttleton (1873-1945), who wrote under the pen-name of G. B. Lancaster. The episode belongs to the 1930s, but has ...

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  8. From: Lyttleton, Edith Joan, 1873-1945 : Papers Reference: MS-Papers-8649-030 Description: Seveteen covers of magazines in which short stories by Edith Lyttleton appeared in. Publications included are: `The premier', `London magazine', `The grand magazine',`The popular magazine', `New Zealand illustrated magazine', `Royal', `Lloyd's story ...

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