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R 3 cently there has = P been a consider- i able amount of = /) mysteryas to AGE 7. S = o i From a Photo, by Hawkins, Brighton. / / L . b T T e o MISS EDNA LYALL A \ e IDNA LYALL, which s AL 1 , it the nom-de-plume of Miss et I Ada Ellen Bavley, is the o Lt youngest daughter of the Iate : i Robert Bavley, of the TInner R Temple, Barmister-at-law. She was born at Brighton, and has been heard to say, with il a laugh, that she made up her mind at il H the age of ten to be a novelist. She had | ‘

only just left school, and was still in her teens, when she wrote her first novel, “Won oy Waiting 71 but it was with

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novel should have o purpose, provided it 15 not too prominently thrust forward. | write for two or three hours in e moming but the time T take over my work vares.” Miss Bayley is st voung, end wich bor un- deniable Titerary qualifications as an carnest thinker, being possessed of a vivid imagiiation. i delicate humour, and a stimple, vigo wous, as wellas graceful style of writing, we mav expectin the future to receive many more charmimg novels from her fertile pen.

Perhaps less s knownof the life and character of Fodna Tyall than

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“We Two? and Donovan” that she made her first con spicuous hits. Miss Baylev has resided for the last few years at Fasthourne, before which time she was living at bancoln. She is fond of travelling, and has seen much of Ttaly and Norway. When asked by an interviewer about the way her works were written, Miss Bayley stated : * The conception of myv central character comes before my plot. | then plan the circumstances m which his individuality can be swrrounded. 1 think cvery

Frow o Photo. by Chrehill, Easthourae.

am a Phaoto. Ly Lowis) Fasthoneno,

who is this Edna T.aall that came to the front so rapidly as a novelist—

a mystery which she has done little to clear PRESENT DAY, LII) Vol -7