Good Old Anna is a 1915 mystery spy novel by the British author Marie Belloc Lowndes.[1] It was published in the United States the following year.[2] Lowndes was well-known for her 1913 novel The Lodger inspired by the Jack the Ripper murders. This work was written following the outbreak of the First World War. A popular novel it is set in a cathedral city in Southern England.[3]

Good Old Anna
AuthorMarie Belloc Lowndes
LanguageEnglish
GenreMystery spy
PublisherHutchinson
Doran (US)
Publication date
1915
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

Synopsis

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German Anna has been a faithful servant of Mrs Otway for eighteen years. She unwittingly becomes a source of secret information to fellow Germans operating a spy ring. When she is confronted by the exposure of the plot, she hangs herself in remorse.[4]

References

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  1. ^ Potter p.141
  2. ^ Vinson p.450
  3. ^ Ouditt p.29
  4. ^ Ouditt p.29-30

Bibliography

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  • Ouditt, Sharon . Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography. Routledge, 2002.
  • Potter, Jane. Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War, 1914-1918. Clarendon Press, 2005.
  • Vinson, James. Twentieth-Century Romance and Gothic Writers. Macmillan, 1982.