NEW ZEALAND NOVELIST

Otago Daily Times, Issue 22122, 28 November 1933, Page 11

NEW ZEALAND NOVELIST

MISS EDITH LYTTELTON RETURNS. (Special to Daily Times.) AUCKLAND, November 27. The well-known New Zealand novelist, "G. B. Lancaster ” (Miss Edith Lyttelton), arrived from Sydney by the Monowai after an absence from the Dominion of nearly four years. After her last visit Miss Lyttelton was for a year in the United States and Canada, and later spent much time in Spain, round the coasts of the Mediterranean, and in Jersey,- interspersed with summers in Britain. 1 Her last novel, "Pageant,” which has a Tasmanian setting, was published separately in the United States, Britain, and Australia, and was selected by the Literary Guild of America for issue to its 30,000 subscribers. A further novel dealing with life in the_ Yukon is running serially in an American magazine, and will be published in February. Miss Lyttelton spent about three weeks in Australia on her way from London. She is the guest of her brother and sister-in-law, Mr and Mrs G. C. Lyttelton, Herne Bay, and her present intention is to spend a quiet year in New Zealand working and resting.