G.B. Lancaster

Lyttleton left New Zealand in 1909 for America, before settling in England. She died in a nursing home in London on 10 March 1945.

Amongst her more popular were "Pageant" (1933), which topped the best-seller chart in America for six months, "Promenade" (1938) and "Grand Parade" (1943). Her stories usually revolved around the legacy of imperialism and were set in colonial Australia, New Zealand or Canada. During World War I she did volunteer work for the Red Cross in London and had assisted Dominion soldiers while they were on leave there. She also wrote several patriotic articles that appeared in newspapers of many allied nations.

Her first success, "The Law-Bringers", was published in 1913, she would go on to author 11 novels and over 250 short stories and other works.

She was the most prolific of the New Zealand contributors to The Australian and the Bulletin, by the time of her move to England in 1909, they had published at least sixty of her short stories.

Edith Joan Lyttelton, who wrote under the pseudonym G. B. Lancaster, was at one time New Zealand's most successful author. She was born at Clyne Vale, a sheep station not far from Campbell Town in Tasmania, a daughter of Westcote McNab Lyttleton and Emily Wood. Around 1879 her father, who had managed Clyne Vale, moved his family to New Zealand after assuming management of Rokeby, a sheep station south of Christchurch. Lyttleton's writing career began by submitting short stories to the New Zealand Illustrated Magazine. Because of her mother's view that it was unbecoming of women to be writers, she published these stories under the pseudonym Keron Hale. Later, after her real identity was revealed, she adopted the name, G. B. Lancaster, a character from her first successful story.

Edith Joan Lyttleton (18 December 1873 – 10 March 1945) was an Australasian author, who wrote as G. B. Lancaster. She was born in Tasmania, and brought up (from 1879) on a sheep station in Canterbury, New Zealand. She produced 13 novels, a collection of stories, two serialised novels and over 250 stories.