Edna Lyall

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Edna Lyall


Born
in Brighton, The United Kingdom
March 25, 1857

Died
February 08, 1903


Edna Lyall was the pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley. Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. At an early age, she lost both her parents and she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school. Bayly never married and she seems to have spent her adult life living in with her two married sisters and her brother, a clergyman in Bosbury in Herefordshire. In 1879, she published her first novel, Won by Waiting, under the pen name of "Edna Lyall" (apparently derived from transposing letters from Ada Ellen Bayly). The book was not a success. Success came with We Two, based on the life of Charles Bradlaugh, a social reformer and advocate of free thought. Her historical novel In the Golden ...more

Average rating: 3.96 · 74 ratings · 19 reviews · 227 distinct works
The Autobiography of a Slander

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We Two: A Novel

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Doreen: The Story of a Singer

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In Spite of All

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Donovan, A Modern Englishman

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Won by Waiting

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In The Golden Days

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The Autobiography of a Truth

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Hope, the Hermit

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A Hardy Norseman (1892)

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“Of thy word unspoken thou art master; thy spoken word is master of thee.”
Edna Lyall, The Autobiography of a Slander