Title An unsettled spirit : the life and frontier fiction of Edith Lyttleton (G.B. Lancaster) / Terry Sturm

Published Calgary, Alta. : University of Calgary Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 308 pages) : illustrations, map Summary "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 twentieth century, reaching millions of readers. She was high in bestseller lists in the United States for six months in 1933 and was awarded the Australian Gold Medal for Literature in the same year. Writing first from her family's Canterbury sheep station and in the face of fierce parental opposition, she later travelled widely researching her stories in the Yukon, Nova Scotia and Tasmania. She never married and, with her sister, devoted many years to the needs of her mother. Her later life was peripatetic and lonely but produced the four phenemonally successful epic novels for which she was best known. In this critical biography Terry Sturm gives an 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."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 276-280) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Lancaster, G. B., 1874-1945. Lancaster, G. B., 1874-1945 Authors, New Zealand -- 20th century -- Biography Women and literature -- New Zealand -- History -- 20th century Frontier and pioneer life in literature. Postcolonialism in literature. BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Women. Authors, New Zealand Frontier and pioneer life in literature Literature Postcolonialism in literature Women and literature New Zealand -- In literature Australia -- In literature Canada -- In literature Australia Canada New Zealand Genre/Form Electronic books Biographies History Biographies. Biographies. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781552384718 1552384713

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