An Unsettled Spirit: The Life and Frontier Fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster)

Clean, tight, unmarked; slightest of wear to inside corners; otherwise spine straight and uncreased; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Edith Lyttleton, under the name of G.B. Lancaster, 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. She was New Zealand's most widely read author overseas in the first half of the 20th, reaching millions of readers. In this critical biography Strum gives 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. In their wide range of settings her stories confront the legacy of colonialism in a way that questions the pieties of empire and makes her work of real contemporary interest.