Liza of Lambeth

Liza of Lambeth (1897) was William Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while working as a doctor at a hospital in Lambeth, then a working class district of London. It depicts the short life and tragic death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in Vere Street (obviously fictional) off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth. All in all, it gives the reader an interesting insight into the everyday lives of working class Londoners at the turn of the century.

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1897 - William Somerset Maugham - Novel - Doctor - Lambeth - Working class - London - Factory - Westminster Bridge Road

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