Edith Joan Lyttleton, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edith Joan Lyttleton

New Zealand author

Date of Birth: 18-Dec-1873

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1945

Profession: writer

Nationality: United Kingdom, New Zealand

Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius


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About Edith Joan Lyttleton

  • Edith Joan Lyttleton (18 December 1873 – 10 March 1945) was an Australasian author, who wrote as G.
  • B.
  • Lancaster.
  • She was born in Tasmania, and brought up (from 1879) on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand.
  • She produced 13 novels, a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.
  • She was New Zealand's most widely read writer of the first half of the twentieth century.
  • She wrote about the formation of colonial identity and the legacy of imperialism in the lives of settlers and their descendants.
  • Her settings were Australia, Canada and New Zealand.
  • She was influenced by Rudyard Kipling and R.
  • L.
  • Stevenson.Her first success was with The Law-bringers (1913), which was made into a Hollywood feature film in the 1920s (as was The Altar Stairs).
  • Pageant (1933) topped the American best-seller list for six months.
  • Other successes were Promenade (1938) and Grand Parade (1943).
  • Lyttleton left New Zealand in 1909 for America, before settling in England.
  • She died in a nursing home in London on 10 March 1945.

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