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LYALL, EDNA , the See also:pen-name of ADA ELLEN See also:BAYLY (1857-1903), See also:English novelist. She was See also:born at See also:Brighton in 1857, the daughter of a See also:barrister. Her parents died while she was a See also:child, and she was brought up at See also:Caterham, See also:Surrey. At See also:Eastbourne, where most of her See also:life was spent, she was well known for her philanthropic activity. She died on the 8th of See also:February 1903. Edna Lyall's See also:vogue as a novelist was the result of a See also:combination of the See also:story-See also:teller's See also:gift with a sincere ethical and religious spirit of See also:Christian tolerance, which at the See also:time was new to many readers. Though her Won by Waiting (1879) had some success, it was with See also:Donovan (1882) and We Two (1884), in which the persecuted atheist was inevitably identified with See also:Charles Brad-laugh, that she became widely popular. Other novels were In the See also:Golden Days (1885), a story of the See also:Great See also:Rebellion; See also:Knight Errant (1887); Autobiography of a See also:Slander (1887); A See also:Hardy Norseman (1889); See also:Derrick See also:Vaughan, The Story of a Novelist (1889); To Right the Wrong (1892); Doreen (1894), a statement of the See also:case for Irish See also:Home See also:Rule; The Autobiography of a Truth (1896), the proceeds of which were devoted to the Armenian See also:Relief Fund; In Spite of All (1901), which had origin-ally been produced by Mr See also:Ben Greet as a See also:play; and The See also:Bruges Letters (1902), a See also:book for See also:children. A Life by J. N. Escreet appeared in 1904, and a shorter See also:account of her by the Rev. G.

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Payne was printed at See also:Manchester in 1903.

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