The cover page is adapted from The Variety Theatre in Paris, a painting completed in 1912 by Magnus Enckell. The cover and title pages feature the League Spartan and Sorts Mill Goudy typefaces created in 2014 and 2009 by The League of Moveable Type. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Enckellwww.theleagueofmoveabletype.com/
The Lost Girl
Chapitres (16)
- I: The Decline of Manchester House 0:00
- II: The Rise of Alvina Houghton 55:13
- III: The Maternity Nurse 1:16:48
- IV: Two Women Die 1:51:58
- V: The Beau 2:31:08
- VI: Houghton’s Last Endeavour 3:47:55
- VII: Natcha-Kee-Tawara 5:15:18
- VIII: Ciccio 6:44:35
- IX: Alvina Becomes Allaye 7:51:32
- X: The Fall of Manchester House 9:46:36
- XI: Honourable Engagement 11:17:37
- XII: Allaye Also Is Engaged 12:34:46
- XIII: The Wedded Wife 13:04:21
- XIV: The Journey Across 13:29:58
- XV: The Place Called Califano 14:31:56
- XVI: Suspense 14:56:29
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Alvina Houghton is the only daughter of James Houghton, a merchant in the English Midlands whose business sense is insufficient to ensure his family’s prosperity. Alvina is independent-minded and struggles to fit in with the society around her—none of the available men spark her interest, and she begins training as a maternity nurse more out of a sense of obligation than of duty.
As her father’s business continues to do poorly, he decides to open a theater, with Alvina helping by playing the piano. A traveling troupe of international entertainers arrive, and Alvina soon falls in love with one of them, an Italian named Ciccio.
As the outbreak of the First World War looms, Alvina feels drawn to rural Italy to live with her love. But after having spent a lifetime as an aimless, freethinking, and unconstrained spirit, can she adapt to the expectations of society firmly entrenched in the past?
Like many of D. H. Lawrence’s novels, The Lost Girl is built around a realistic depiction of English Midland life and society. Despite modern assessments placing it among the lesser of his novels, it won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 1920.