Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. 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 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.
— Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
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