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Edna Lyall

 

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Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" she added about the latter that Princess 'Beatrice has ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Queen Victoria      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : We Two

'The Queen [Victoria] had ... [in 1886] read only "Donovan" [by Edna Lyall], but in sending this to her daughter together with "We Two" [1884] she added about the latter that Princess "Beatrice has ..."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Princess Beatrice      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : We Two

'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : Donovan: A Modern Englishman

'Aged 22, Mrs [Ruth] Baily read [and enjoyed] both ... ["Donovan" and "We Two"] in 1887 ...'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Ruth Baily      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : novels

"Whilst the Viscountess Rhondda had taken with her [to prison, where sent as suffragettte] Morley's Life of Gladstone and ... famous speeches of famous men, she resorted in preference to the Edna Lyall novels which she borrowed from the prison library ..."

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Viscountess Rhondda      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : To Right the Wrong

'Monday 23rd August I was more than usually disgusted with the ?Mail? for blatantly howling of our ?recovery of the Ashes? on a poster. On the street of one poor game out of five! A result due to our refusal to play them out. ?To Right the Wrong? ( Edna Lyall)' .

Century: 1900-1945     Reader/Listener/Group: Gerald Moore      Print: Book

  

Edna Lyall : Autobiography of a Slander

'In respect of contemporary novels he [Tennyson] had a very catholic taste. Latterly he read Stevenson and George Meredith with great interest: also Walter Besant, Black, Hardy, Henry James, Marion Crawford, Anstey, Barrie, Blackmore, Conan Doyle, Miss Braddon, Miss Lawless, Ouida, Miss Broughton, Lady Margaret Majendie, Hall Caine, and Shorthouse. He liked Edna Lyall's Autobiography of a Slander, and the Geier-Wally by Wilhelmina von Hillern; and often gave his friends Surly Tim to read, for its "concentrated pathos." "Mrs Oliphant's prolific work," he would observe, "is amazing, and she is nearly always worth reading."'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Alfred Tennyson      Print: Unknown

 

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