num_pages: 400
description: A classic Lawrence novel of sensual awakening and the yearning for freedom, and winner of the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize.The daughter of well-to-do trades people in the fictional mining town of Woodhouse, Alvina Houghton struggles to find excitement in her provincial surroundings and worries that 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 edition also contains pictures, personal notes, and other critical primary source material.
language: English
title: The Lost Girl
titlecomplete: The Lost Girl
characters: Alvina Houghton
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, English Literature, Classic Literature, Fiction, Romance, British Literature
ratings_count: 948
awards: awardedAt: -1577894400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction
publisher: Penguin Books