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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.
Lyttleton, Edith Joan. 1873–1945. 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 ...
In 1926 she returned to New Zealand for four years, and in the late 1920s, after visiting ancestral sites in Tasmania, she began to write Pageant, the first of the four ‘Dominion-historical’ epic romances of colonial life, set in Australia, New Zealand and Canada, by which she came to be best known.
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.
Tasmanian-born novelist and short story writer. Name variations: (pseudonyms) Keron Hale and G.B. Lancaster. Born Edith Joan Lyttelton, Dec 18, 1873, at the family sheep station at Epping, northern Tasmania; died Mar 10, 1945, in a London nursing home; dau. of Emily Wood and Westcote McNab Lyttelton; m. Hon. Alfred Lyttelton.
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. Living in London, she became an ...
Kōtare 2007, Special Issue — Essays in New Zealand Literary Biography Series One: ‘Women Prose Writers to World War I’ G. B. Lancaster (Edith Lyttleton), 1873-1945 Image Gallery
