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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. [1] Between 1904 and 1943 she produced 13 novels , a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.
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 ...
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.
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.
Edith Lyttleton, who wrote under the pen-name of G. B. Lancaster, was one of New Zealand’s most widely read authors of popular fiction overseas between the early twentieth century and the end of the Second World War.
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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.
