Facing impending spinsterhood, educated Englishwoman Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a Midlands Drape-maker, discovers her own passion and sensuality in the fertile landscape of Italy when she meets Cicio, a vaudeville performer and a man of lower social status.
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Facing impending spinsterhood, educated Englishwoman Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a Midlands Drape-maker, discovers her own passion and sensuality in the fertile landscape of Italy when she meets Cicio, a vaudeville performer and a man of lower social status.
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The Lost Girl, D. H. Lawrence's forgotten novel, is a passionate tale of longing and sexual defiance, of devastation and destitution.Alvina Houghton, the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper, comes of age just as her father's business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter's proper upbringing, James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Ciccio, a sensual Italian who immediately captures Alvina's attention. Fleeing with him to Naples, she leaves her safe world behind and enters one of sexual awakening, desire, and fleeting freedom.
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“"[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important." -Virginia Woolf”
“[Lawrence was] a writer with an extraordinary sense of the physical world, of the colour and texture and shape of things, for whom the body was alive and the problems of the body insistent and important.” —Virginia Woolf
About the Author
Lee Siegel is a critic and essayist living in New York City, whose writing about literature, art, politics, film, and television has appeared in Harper's, The New Republic, Time, The Atlantic Monthly, and The New Yorker, among other publications. He received the 2002 National Magazine Award for Reviews and Criticism.
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