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MNS (Marie Sorbo)
The autobiography of a slander (1887)
The autobiography of a truth (1896)
The Burges letters (1902)
Derrick Vaughan, novelist (1889)
Donovan (1882)
The hinderers (1902)
Hope the hermit (1898)
In spite of all (1901)
Wayfaring men (1897)
Won by waiting (1879)
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She was the youngest of four children. Her father died when she was eleven, her mother died when she was fourteen. She was educated at home, and at private schools in Surrey and Brighton.
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Wrote 18 novels, with mixed success.
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 Days was the last book read to John Ruskin on his deathbed.[1] Bayly wrote eighteen novels.
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KLK 1904
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