Grit Lawless
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A good fit for
- Readers with intermediate or better English who want to try an English-language novel
- Readers interested in late nineteenth- to early twentieth-century British popular fiction
- Learners who need free public-domain English eBooks for extensive reading
- Collectors of materials on English literary editions and public-domain digitization
Not a good fit for
- Readers with limited English who prefer a Chinese translation
- Readers who prefer modern genre fiction with strong suspense and fast pacing
- Academic readers seeking detailed author biographies and critical studies
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- Read the first chapter to gauge the language level, then decide whether to read a chapter or half a chapter a day and keep a steady pace.
- Keep an electronic dictionary handy; note recurring character names and period expressions.
- After finishing, summarize the main character relationships and conflicts in two or three sentences to check comprehension.
- For language study, close-read a passage and analyze sentence structure and narrative point of view.
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About the author
Florence Ethel Mills Young (1875–1945) was a British writer of popular fiction, born in Twickenham in 1875 and died in Cape Town in 1945. Public information about her is limited, and many details of her life remain unknown. Between 1910 and 1941 she produced about fifty novels, a considerable output. Her early works are mostly set among British settlers in South Africa, portraying everyday life and fortunes in the colony. Seven of her works are held here, including Grit Lawless, The Shadow of the Past, The Bigamist, The Triumph of Jill, Coelebs: The Love Story of a Bachelor, Imprudence and The Stronger Influence, with The Shadow of the Past often regarded as her representative work. Her novels stay close to ordinary life, with brisk plots and clear emotional threads, offering the readability and narrative pace common to popular fiction and suiting the tastes of general readers of her time; they also provide a sample for observing early twentieth-century British popular literature.
