Edith Joan Lyttleton

Edith Joan Lyttleton (18 December 187310 March 1945)

She was New Zealand's most widely read writer of the first half of the twentieth century. She died in a nursing home in London on 10 March 1945.

Awards and recognition Lyttleton was awarded the Australian Literary Society Gold Medal for an outstanding literary work in the previous calendar year, for Pageant in 1933.

Lyttleton Crescent, a street in the Canberra suburb of Cook, is named in her honour.

Novels Sons O' Man (1904) The Spur to Smite (1905) The Tracks We Tread (1907) The Altar Stairs (1907) Jim of the Ranges (1910) The Honorable Peggy (1911) The Law-Bringers (1913) Food Divine (1917) The Savignys (1918) Pageant (1933) The World is Yours (1933) Promenade (1938) Grand Parade (1943)

Film adaptations Rider of the Law (1919) - original screenplay with H. Tipton Steck The Altar Stairs (1922) - based on her novel of the same name The Eternal Struggle (1923) - based on her novel The Law-Bringers The Little Irish Girl (1926) - based on her story "The Grifters" Bred in Old Kentucky (1926) - original screenplay with Louis Weadock