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

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Payne was printed at Manchester in 1903 .