Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W. Somerset Maugham's first novel, which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in Lambeth,A fragment of autobiography, Somerset Maugham 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 with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth.
Liza of Lambeth (1897) was W Somerset Maugham's first novel which he wrote while he was a medical student and obstetric clerk at St Thomas's Hospital in LambethA fragment of autobiography Somerset Maugham 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 with her aging mother in the fictional Vere Street off Westminster Bridge Road (real) in Lambeth