<p>Perhaps D. H. Lawrence’s most beautiful thoroughly contemporary love story <em>The Lost Girl</em> charts the journey of a woman caught between two worlds and two lives: one mired in convention in industrial England the other promising sensual liberation in the vibrant landscape of Italy. Alvina Houghton the daughter of a widowed Midlands draper comes of age just as her father’s business is failing. In a desperate attempt to regain his fortune and secure his daughter’s proper upbringing James Houghton buys a theater. Among the traveling performers he employs is Naples-born Cicio a vaudeville dancer who draws Alvina into a dance of seduction awakening her desire as she defies her stifling upper-class life for a fleeting chance at freedom.</p>