Liza of Lambeth
First edition cover | |
| Author | W. Somerset Maugham |
|---|---|
| Working title | A Lambeth Idyll |
| 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, 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.