Edith Lyttelton
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Edith Lyttelton's prominent position in society helped to draw attention to her first and best-known play, Warp and Woof, 1904, which took up the issue of sweated labour. Her dramatic oeuvre includes several morality plays, a genre she actively promoted through the
. She produced a single novel. Her non-fiction traces her evolving personal and political interests: she produced a biography of her husband (the politician
), a report for the
, several treatises on parapsychology, and an account of her travels in India and the Far East, in which she defends British colonialism.
- BirthName: Edith Sophy Balfour
- Nicknames: D. D.; Mrs KingMrs Patrick Campbell knew D. D. Lytteltonas
- Married: Lyttelton; The Hon. Mrs. Alfred LytteltonThis Edith Sophy Balfour Lyttelton should not be confused with the New Zealand novelist .(1873-1945), who wrote under the name
- Pseudonym: Edith Hamlet