The Lost Girl

D. H. Lawrence · 1920 CE · Novel · English · Modernist

Alvina Houghton, daughter of a Midlands draper whose shop and schemes are failing one after another, trains as a maternity nurse to escape and comes back to play piano for the cinema her father has opened. A touring troupe of performers billed as Red Indians lodges above the shop, and one of them, Ciccio, is from a village in the Abruzzi. Begun before the war as The Insurrection of Miss Houghton, finished in Sicily, and the book that won Lawrence the James Tait Black.

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