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Edith Joan Lyttleton (18 December 1873 – 10 March 1945) was an Australasian author, who wrote as G. B. Lancaster. Life and career [ edit ] 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 . [1]
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 Lyttleton was born on 18 December 1873 at Clyne Vale, a family sheepfarming property at Epping, near Campbell Town in northern Tasmania. She was the eldest child of Emily Wood and ...
Portraits of Edith Lyttleton, 1920s-1930s. 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. John Lane, The Bodley Head van promoting Edith Lyttleton's novel `Promenade' 1938.
Portraits of Edith Lyttleton, 1920s-1930s. 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. John Lane, The Bodley Head van promoting Edith Lyttleton's novel `Promenade' 1938.
About 1879, when Edith was six, the family emigrated to New Zealand, where Westcote Lyttleton became manager, eventually owner, of the Rokeby sheep station at Rakaia, near Ashburton in Canterbury. It was one of a number of substantial property investments in the South Island that his father had earlier made as a partner in the wealthy Tasmanian property syndicate Kermode and Company.
Sometimes described as the “New Zealand Kipling” in the first four decades of the twentieth-century (Sturm 70), Edith Lyttleton was a popular and prolific writer of short stories as well as the author of twelve novels.
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Jun 8, 2007 · Edith Lyttleton, writing under the penname of G. B. Lancaster, was until the 1970s New Zealand’s most successful popular fiction writer. A prolific author of both short stories and novels, she achieved her success by writing colonial adventure stories in defiance of familial and societal expectations.
