The Lost Girl

by D. H. Lawrence · 1920

A draper's daughter in a dull Midlands town breaks free by running off with an Italian performer to a hard life in the mountains.

Books mentioned in The Lost Girl (7)

• Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy: “But your Sue now, in Jude the Obscure—is it not an interesting book?”
• Tommy and Grizel by J. M. Barrie: “May I see what you're reading!" And he turned over the book. "'Tommy and Grizel!”
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll: “Strange it all was, like Alice in Wonderland.”
• The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins: “Who knows but that he had been reading Wilkie Collins’ famous novel!”
• L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand: “Next to Alvina sat a trim Frenchwoman reading L’Aiglon.”
• Vathek by William Beckford: “with touches of Vathek and Lord Byron and George Macdonald”
• Les Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles: “I shall be like the woman in the Cent Nouvelles and carry my child for five years.”