The Lost Girl

About “The Lost Girl”

The daughter of well-to-do tradespeople in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries she is condemned to become an old maid. After plans to elope with her lover to Australia and train as a nurse in London lead to nothing, she joins a traveling theater group and succumbs to the charms of the dark, passionate Italian Ciccio. This 1920 novel by D. H. Lawrence, in this edition, also contains pictures, personal notes, and other critical primary source material.