The Claw (novel)

{{Short description|1911 novel}}

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The Claw is a 1911 novel by Cynthia Stockley. Set in Colonial South Africa and Zimbabwe, the work follows the adventures of an eighteen-year-old girl who was born in South Africa to Irish parents. From South Africa she travels to Mashonaland in a time of political unrest when there is an uprising of the Matabele people.{{cite book|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZsNAQAAIAAJ&dq=The+Claw+1911+Cynthia+Stockley&pg=PA449|chapter=Stockley, Cynthia. The Claw.|title=Book Review Digest, Seventh Annual Cumulation: Book Reviews of 1911 in One Alphabet|page=449|editor=Clara Elizabeth Fanning, Justina Leavitt Wilson|publisher=H. W. Wilson Company|year=1911}} The novel was adapted into a silent film twice.