The Lost Girl

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Viking Press, 1982 - Fiction - 421 pages
This edition of The Lost Girl offers a text corresponding to Lawrence"s expectations.

Contents

The Decline of Manchester House I
1
The Rise of Alvina Houghton
24
The Maternity Nurse
34
Two Women Die
49
The Beau
65
Houghtons Last Endeavour
100
NatchaKeeTawara
139
Ciccio
177
Honorable Engagement
299
Allaye also is Engaged
334
The Wedded Wife
348
The Journey Across
359
The Place Called Califano
385
Suspense
395
Note on the Text
417
Chronology
419

Alvina becomes Allaye
207
The Fall of Manchester House
257
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About the author (1982)

D(avid) H(erbert) Lawrence was born on September 11, 1885. His father was a coal miner and Lawrence grew up in a mining town in England. He always hated the mines, however, and frequently used them in his writing to represent both darkness and industrialism, which he despised because he felt it was scarring the English countryside. Lawrence attended high school and college in Nottingham and, after graduation, became a school teacher in Croyden in 1908. Although his first two novels had been unsuccessful, he turned to writing full time when a serious illness forced him to stop teaching. Lawrence spent much of his adult life abroad in Europe, particularly Italy, where he wrote some of his most significant and most controversial novels, including Sons and Lovers and Lady Chatterly's Lover. Lawrence and his wife, Frieda, who had left her first husband and her children to live with him, spent several years touring Europe and also lived in New Mexico for a time. Lawrence had been a frail child, and he suffered much of his life from tuberculosis. Eventually, he retired to a sanitorium in Nice, France. He died in France in 1930, at age 44. In his relatively short life, he produced more than 50 volumes of short stories, poems, plays, essays, travel journals, and letters, in addition to the novels for which he is best known.

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