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Lyttleton was born on the family farm near Campbell Town, Tasmania, and brought up from 1879 in New Zealand on a sheep station at Rakaia in Canterbury. Between 1904 and 1943 she produced 13 novels , a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.
She was the eldest child of Emily Wood and her husband, Westcote McNab Lyttleton. Her father, born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was descended from an influential Scottish landed family who colonised Nova Scotia in the eighteenth century.
Edith Lyttleton nursing child seated by large fireplace, 1932. Edith Lyttleton's travels in the Ureweras, New Zealand, 1928. Photographs taken during passage through the Suez Canal, and of Bali.
Edith Lyttleton nursing child seated by large fireplace, 1932. Edith Lyttleton's travels in the Ureweras, New Zealand, 1928. Photographs taken during passage through the Suez Canal, and of Bali.
The eldest child of Westcote McNab Lyttelton (gentleman) and Emily (née Wood), Edith Joan was born on 18 December 1873 in northern Tasmania where her father managed a sheep station. Along with English, Scottish and French ancestry, Edith inherited the Victorian British imperialistic values typical of the frontier colonies.
Edith spent the first six years of her life in Tasmania while her father managed Clyne Vale, before the family moved to New Zealand in order for him to manage Rokeby. Lyttleton’s childhood was characterised by oppressive domestic circumstances.
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Edith Lyttleton under the name of G. B. Lancaster was New Zealand’s most widely read author overseas and 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.
