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The Autobiography of a Slander

by Edna Lyall

A gossipy old woman, an impressionable young girl, a narrow-minded curate, a letter written while bored, a scrap of dinner party conversation intended to impress - these are amongst the fatal steps which lead from a lie to a tragedy.

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English

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English

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1887

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Edna Lyall

England

Ada Ellen Bayly also known as Edna Lyall, was an English novelist, who "supported the women's suffrage movement from an early age." Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barr...

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