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Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
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Working title | A Lambeth Idyll[1] |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Set in | Lambeth, August—November, a year c. 1892–96 |
Published | 1897 |
Publisher | T. Fisher Unwin |
Publication place | United Kingdom |
Media type | Print: hardback |
Pages | 242+6 |
823.89 | |
LC Class | PR6025.A86 L45 |
Followed by | The Making of a Saint |
Text | Liza of Lambeth at Wikisource |
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth,[2] then a working-class district of London. It depicts the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth.[3]