About Elizabeth Lusk
Lived 1868 – 1934 (aged 65–66). Elizabeth Lusk was a writer and novelist.
Elizabeth Lusk (1868 – 30 November 1933) was a New Zealand writer who wrote six romance novels under the pen-name Elizabeth Milton. She was the sister of novelist Rosemary Rees.
Lusk was born in Hokitika in 1868 to William Lee Rees, a barrister and MP. In March 1891 she married Hugh Butler Lusk, a lawyer and cricketer. They had three daughters and a son. This was followed by a further five novels.
She died after a short illness in Napier in November 1933, shortly after her final novel, Strange Horizon, was accepted.
Works Love and Chiffon (1929) Wand'ring Wood (1930) Desert Quest (1931) They Called Her Faith (1932) Waimana (1934) Strange Horizon (1934)
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