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She was New Zealand 's most widely read writer of the first half of the twentieth century. [1] 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.
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 ...
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.
This book is a fascinating account of the harsh experience of a gifted woman writer forced to earn her own living but struggling to move beyond the limits of potboilers to more serious work.' to 'Pen name for Edith Joan Lyttelton (1873—1945) who was an Australasian author (born in Australia and raised in New Zealand).
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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.
Under the name of G.B. Lancaster, Edith Lyttleton 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.
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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.
