Good Old Anna

{{Short description|1915 novel}}

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| genre = Mystery spy

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Good Old Anna is a 1915 mystery spy novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.Potter p.141 It was published in the United States the following year.Vinson p.450 Lowndes was well-known for her 1913 novel The Lodger inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. This work was written following the outbreak of the First World War. A popular novel it is set in a cathedral city in Southern England.Ouditt p.29

Synopsis

German Anna has been a faithful servant of Mrs Otway for eighteen years. She unwittingly becomes a source of secret information to fellow Germans operating a spy ring. When she is confronted by the exposure of the plot, she hangs herself in remorse.Ouditt p.29-30

References

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Bibliography

  • Ouditt, Sharon . Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography. Routledge, 2002.
  • Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918. Clarendon Press, 2005.
  • Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.

Category:1915 British novels

Category:Novels by Marie Belloc Lowndes

Category:Hutchinson (publisher) books

Category:British mystery novels

Category:British spy novels

Category:Novels set in England

Category:Novels set during World War I

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