''The Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1908 novel by the British writer
Gertrude Page
Gertrude Eliza Page (1872 – 1 April 1922) was an Anglo-Rhodesian novelist.
Biography
Educated at Bedford High School, Page wrote for ''The Girl's Own Paper'' as a teenager. Marrying George Alexander "Alec" Dobbin in 1902, she moved with him ...
. Like a number of her works it is set in
Rhodesia
Rhodesia ( , ; ), officially the Republic of Rhodesia from 1970, was an unrecognised state, unrecognised state in Southern Africa that existed from 1965 to 1979. Rhodesia served as the ''de facto'' Succession of states, successor state to the ...
where she had settled. It was translated into both
Czech
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* Anything from or related to the Czech Republic, a country in Europe
** Czech language
** Czechs, the people of the area
** Czech culture
** Czech cuisine
* One of three mythical brothers, Lech, Czech, and Rus
*Czech (surnam ...
and
Polish
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* Anything from or related to Poland, a country in Europe
* Polish language
* Polish people, people from Poland or of Polish descent
* Polish chicken
* Polish brothers (Mark Polish and Michael Polish, born 1970), American twin ...
.
Adaptations
The novel was adapted by Page into a
West End play. This was subsequently adapted into a 1919 British silent film ''
Edge O' Beyond
''Edge O' Beyond'' is a 1919 British silent film, silent drama film directed by Fred W. Durrant and starring Ruby Miller (actress), Ruby Miller, Owen Nares and Isobel Elsom. It is an adaptation of the 1908 novel ''The Edge O' Beyond'' by Gertrude ...
'' starring
Ruby Miller who had also appeared in the play.
[Bamford p.35]
References
Bibliography
* Bamford, Kenton. ''Distorted images: British national identity and film in the 1920s''. I.B. Tauris, 1999.
* Free, Melissa. ''Beyond Gold and Diamonds: Genre, the Authorial Informant, and the British South African Novel''. SUNY Press, 2021.
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
1908 British novels
Novels by Gertrude Page
British romance novels
British novels adapted into films
Novels set in Rhodesia
Hurst and Blackett books
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