An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster)
- ISBN-10
- 1552381285
- ISBN-13
- 9781552381281
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 308
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- University of Calgary Press
- Author
- Terry Sturm
Description
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. 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.
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- 2003-09-01
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