Enter Ciccio, the surly dark-eyed horseman. Into this drab environment enter the Natcha-Kee-Tawara: a polyglot, poly-amorous troupe of travelling players united, on- and off-stage, in a fantasy of Native American nomadism.
Losing first her mother, a perpetual invalid, and later her cross-dressing father, a woefully ineffectual small-scale entrepreneur, Alvina feels doomed to merge with the tribe of eternal spinsters who surround her in the dreary mining community of Woodhouse. David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) was a versatile and visionary author of novels, short stories, poetry, essays and translations whose reputation has been overshadowed by early censorship and sensationalist. Alvina Houghton's plight, however, is given a rather comic and even picaresque treatment. Read millions of eBooks and audiobooks on the web, iPad, iPhone and Android. In this most under-valued of his novels, Lawrence once again presents us with a young woman hemmed in by her middle-class upbringing and (like Ursula Brangwen in The Rainbow) longing for escape. She was cut off from everything she belonged to. It was awarded the 1920 James Tait Black Memorial Prize in the fiction category. There is no mistake about it, Alvina was a lost girl.
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