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The Lost Girl
The story is set in the small industrial town of Woodhouse in England and revolves around Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a struggling merchant, as she grapples with societal expectations and her identity.
"The Lost Girl" by D. H. Lawrence is a novel. The story is set in the small industrial town of Woodhouse in England and revolves around Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a struggling merchant, as she grapples with societal expectations and her identity.
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Take a mining townlet like Woodhouse, with a population of ten thousand people, and three generations behind it. This space of three generations argues a certain well-established society. The old “County” has fled from the sight of so much disembowelled coal, to flourish on mineral rights in regions still idyllic. Remains one great and inaccessible magnate, the local coal owner: three generations old, and clambering on the bottom step of the “County,” kicking off the mass below. Rule him out.
A well established society in Woodhouse, full of fine shades, ranging from the dark of coal-dust to grit of stone-mason and sawdust of timber-merchant, through the lustre of lard and butter and meat, to the perfume of the chemist and the disinfectant of the doctor, on to the serene gold-tarnish of bank-managers, cashiers for the firm, clergymen and such-like, as far as the automobile refulgence of the general-manager of all the collieries. Here the ne plus ultra. The general manager lives in the shrubberied seclusion of the so-called Manor. The genuine Hall, abandoned by the “County,” has been taken over as offices by the firm.
Contents
- 01Chapter I the Decline of Manchester House
- 02Chapter II the Rise of Alvina Houghton
- 03Chapter III the Maternity Nurse
- 04Chapter IV Two Women Die
- 05Chapter V the Beau
- 06Chapter VI Houghton’s Last Endeavour
- 07Chapter VII Natcha-Kee-Tawara
- 08Chapter VIII Ciccio
- 09Chapter IX Alvina Becomes Allaye
- 10Chapter X the Fall of Manchester House
- 11Chapter XI Honourable Engagement
- 12Chapter XII Allaye Also Is Engaged
- 13Chapter XIII the Wedded Wife
- 14Chapter XIV the Journey Across
- 15Chapter XV the Place Called Califano
- 16Chapter XVI Suspense
About this edition
- Author
- D. H. Lawrence
- Language
- English
- Era
- Modern (c. 1800–1945)
- Reading level
- Introductory: no background needed
- Formats
- EPUB, PDF
- Length
- 403 pages
- This edition
- Modern Philosophers
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