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   Sep 18, 2011 · Liza of Lambeth, a naturalistic account of a tragic love triangle in a slum setting, shocked Victorian reviewers and readers. Maugham has demonstrated in his once popular but now rarely read novel that women were more vulnerable to the degenerative slum conditions than men.

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   Plot summary. The action covers a period of roughly four months—from August to November—in a year in the 1890s. Liza Kemp is an 18-year-old factory worker and the youngest of a large family, now living alone with her aging mother.

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   • Author: W. Somerset Maugham
   • Language: English

   • Publish Year: 1897
   • Title: Liza of Lambeth

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   Aug 12, 2005 · Liza of Lambeth SOMERSET MAUGHAM . PENGUIN BOOKS . Published by the Penguin Group First published in Great Britain by William Heinemann Ltd 1897 . CONTENTS

5. www.mymaughamcollection.com › liza-of-lambethLiza of Lambeth - First Edition by W. Somerset Maugham

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   Apr 22, 2013 · Liza of Lambeth (1897) is Maugham's first novel; he wrote it when he was still in the medical school at St. Thomas's. When it was accepted and published, Maugham made up his mind to ditch medicine and launched himself into the writing career.

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   Sep 1, 1992 · Penguin Publishing Group, Sep 1, 1992 - Fiction - 128 pages. W. Somerset Maugham’s first novel is about the gloomy, poverty-stricken world of South London in the 1890s and how it affects one young...

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   Who wrote Liza of Lambeth?

   • Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham 's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth, then a working-class district of London.

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   • Like Morrison’s “Lizerunt” and Kipling’s “ The Record of Badalia Herodsfoot ”, Maugham’s Liza of Lambeth is focused on a peculiar slum culture characterised by abusive and degrading relations, brutality, degeneracy and victimisation of women who are subjected to sexual assault, rape, domestic violence and exhaustive labour.

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   Who is Liza Kemp?

   • Liza Kemp, an attractive eighteen-year-old factory worker, shares a room with her widowed alcoholic mother of thirteen children in the dismal Vere Street, Lambeth. Although Liza lives and works in a depressing overpopulated slum environment full of domestic and street violence, boredom, and vulgarity, she maintains high spirits.

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   What happened between Liza and Mrs Kemp?

   • Finally they both grew silent, and in a little while there came a snore from Mrs. Kemp; her head fell forward to her chest; Liza tumbled from her chair on to the bed, and sprawling across it fell asleep. Cast a glance at this heart which is bewildered and distressed. O God, take away from my mind my cry and my complaint.

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   Controversial for its portrayal of infidelity, domestic violence, and women’s reproductive health, Liza of Lambeth is a gritty realist tale that takes an honest look at the everyday struggles...