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Lyttleton Cres, Cook ACT 2614, Australia
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Edith
Joan Lyttleton (18 December 1873 – 10 March 1945)[1][2] 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.
Marjorie Pickthall was a
Canadian writer. Pickthall is described as an “intimate friend” of
Helen Adams Coleman,
niece of
Helena Coleman. On 22 May 1920
Pickthall sailed from
Liverpool
for Toronto, and then journeyed on to
Lang Bay in the Sunshine Coast area of
British Columbia with Edith Joan Lyttleton.
Lyttleton was New Zealand's most widely read writer of the first half of
the twentieth century.[1]& 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.[1]
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.[3] She
died in a nursing home in London on 10 March 1945.[2]
She was awarded the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for an
outstanding literary work in the previous calendar year, for Pageant in 1933.[4]
Lyttleton Crescent, a street in the Canberra suburb of Cook, is named in her
honour.[5]
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