Edith Joan Lyttleton
(1873–1945/1944)

Used pseudonym G. B. Lancaster. Australasian author; 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. Some of her works were adapted to films.

Edith Joan Lyttleton

Works

Novels

(partial list)

  • Sons o' Men (1904) IA
  • The Spur to Smite (1905)
  • The Spur, or, The Bondage of Kim Severne (1906) IA
  • The Tracks We Tread (1907) IA
  • The Altar Stairs (1907)
  • Jim of the Ranges (1910) IA (microform)
  • The Honorable Peggy (1911)
  • Peter's Chance: A Play in Three Acts (1912) with Edith Sophy Balfour Lyttelton IA
  • The Law-bringers (1913) (transcription project)
  • Food Divine (1917)
  • The Savignys (1918)

Individual short stories

Verse
  • "Sea Lavender" (verse) Windsor Magazine, 1914
  • "Wandering Fires" (verse) Windsor Magazine, 1914
  • "Belgium" (verse) Windsor Magazine, 1914

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in the United States because they were published before January 1, 1927.


The author died in 1945, so works by this author are also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 75 years or less. Works by this author may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.

 

Some or all works by this author are in the public domain in Australia because they were created in Australia and the term of copyright has expired.

See Australian Copyright Council - Duration of Copyright (January 2019).


Some or all works by this author are also in the public domain in the United States because they were in the public domain in Australia in 1996, and no copyright was registered in the U.S. (This is the combined effect of Australia having joined the Berne Convention in 1928, and of 17 USC 104A with its critical date of January 1, 1996.)

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