Liza of Lambeth

(1897)

A tale of working-class adultery and its consequences. It draws on Maugham's experiences as a medical student doing midwifery work in Lambeth, a South London slum. Maugham writes in Chapter 1: "... it is impossible always to give the exact unexpurgated words of Liza and the other personages of the story; the reader is therefore entreated with his thoughts to piece out the necessary imperfections of the dialogue."

This novel is about the short life and death of Liza Kemp, an 18-year-old factory worker who lives together with her aging mother in a fictional area close to Westminster Bridge Road in Lambeth.

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