Love in the Wilderness (novel)

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Love in the Wilderness
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Early edition
Author Gertrude Page
Country United Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreRomance
Publisher Hurst and Blackett
Publication date
1907
Media typePrint

Love in the Wilderness is a 1907 novel by the British writer Gertrude Page. It was her debut and breakthrough novel, which she followed with the even more successful Paddy the Next Best Thing the following year. The novel takes place in Rhodesia, which Page had herself emigrated to with her husband several years earlier.

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Adaptation

In 1920 it was made into a British silent film of the same title directed by Alexander Butler and starring Madge Titheradge. [1]

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References

  1. Goble p.357

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