Lost Girl
Author: first_name: D. H.
last_name: Lawrence
Language: English
Year: 1921

"There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. She was cut off from everything she belonged to."
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In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ine