Ada Ellen Bayly (1857 - 1903)

Short name Ada Ellen Bayly
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First name Ada Ellen
Birth name Bayly
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Alternative name Edna Lyall
Date of birth 1857
Date of death 1903
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Sex Female
Place of birth Brighton
Place of death England
Lived in England
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Education School education
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Professional or ecclesiastical title Author, novelist
Ada Ellen Bayly was ...
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Place(s) of Residence England
Receptions of Ada Ellen Bayly, the person (for receptions of her works, see under each individual Work)
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*Diary entry, Wednesday 24 March Virginia Woolf 1897 comments on person
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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) SNMay12 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. - 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. Edited MNS16 KLK 1904 KLK 1915