Text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (ifĪvailable), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for thisīecome a volunteer reader, visit. The Italian's potent and threatening physicality overwhelms Alvina and soon will propel her into - what? Perdition, or the paradoxical freedom of a girl who 'like(s) being lost'?įor further information, including links to online Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. Into this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism. Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse. Lawrence: A Guide to Research Thomas Jackson Rice Routledge, Literary Criticism - 510 pages 0 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content. Read 93 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. 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. She was cut off from everything she belonged to.'

She was cut off from everything she belonged to.' 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. 'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. Lawrence (1885 - 1930) 'There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl. LibriVox recording of The Lost Girl by D.

The Lost Girl by D.H. Lawrence