Lyall Edna: 18 books

This autobiography by Ada Ellen Bayly gives full expression to her ideals and aim in life. Most of her works were under pseudonym and in this work she defends herself and her approach. A stimulating work that portrays a strong woman and her life-long struggle.

3 works of Edna Lyall English novelist (1857-1903) This ebook presents a collection of 3 works of Edna Lyall. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: Derrick Vaughan-Novelist Life and Times of Washington - Volume II We Two

Ada Ellen Bayly, a.k.a. Edna Lyall, was an English novelist, and an early feminist. 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...

Edna Lyall was born in Brighton on the 25th March, 1857, the youngest of four children of a barrister who died when she was eleven. Her mother, Mary Winter died three years later, an experience which Ada Bayly was later to write about in her novel We Two where the heroine Erica returns home after...

The story of a male pacifist novelist with subtle autobiographical references. The characters are delineated in a manner that engrosses the reader. With the ups and downs faced by the protagonist at times emotional turmoil and at other times profound contentment the story captivates the imagination.

'Nothing fills a child's mind like a large old mansion; better if un- or partially occupied; peopled with the spirits of deceased members of the county and Justices of the Quorum. Would I were buried in the peopled solitude of one, with my feelings at seven years old! '— From Letters of Charles Lamb.

Now in that house you’re sure of knowing

People who have been brought up in the country, or in small places where every neighbor is known by sight, are apt to think that life in a large town must lack many of the interests which they have learned to find in their more limited communities. In a somewhat bewildered way, they gaze at the shifting...

I was born on the 2nd September, 1886, in a small, dull, country town. When I say the town was dull, I mean, of course, that the inhabitants were unenterprising, for in itself Muddleton was a picturesque place, and though it laboured under the usual disadvantage of a dearth of bachelors and a superfluity...

“I wonder what will become of Ralph Denmead,” said Lady Tresidder, “it is one of the saddest cases I ever heard of; the poor boy seems to be left without a single relation.” “Yes,” said Sir John, musingly. “Just the way with these old decayed families, they dwindle slowly away and then...

Roy Boniface turned away with a smile, understanding her feeling well enough, and Cecil, with her back to the chattering tourist throng, let her eyes roam over the shining waters of the fjord to the craggy mountains on the further shore, whose ever-varying forms had been delighting her since the early...

People who have been brought up in the country, or in small places where every neighbor is known by sight, are apt to think that life in a large town must lack many of the interests which they have learned to find in their more limited communities. In a somewhat bewildered way, they gaze at the shifting...

The effect produced upon the general mind by the appearance of Charlotte Brontë in literature, and afterwards by the record of her life when that was over, is one which it is nowadays somewhat difficult to understand. Had the age been deficient in the art of fiction, or had it followed any long level...

To attempt a formal biography of Derrick Vaughan would be out of the question, even though he and I have been more or less thrown together since we were both in the nursery. But I have an odd sort of wish to note down roughly just a few of my recollections of him, and to show how his fortunes gradually...