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The Autobiography of a Slander
by
Edna Lyall
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32 pages
Published
July 24th 2010
by General Books
(first published 1887)
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Though parts of this little story are very funny (Mrs. Selldon's dinner party), this book touches on early 1900 Russia's political climate. A good deal here to discuss i.e. the power of words. In some ways, reminded me of Nien Chang and Life and Death in Shanghai.
Jan 14, 2010
Iris
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An excerpt from this bizarre short story was featured in a spam email I received. For once, I'm grateful to the anti-screening policy of the University of Michigan email servers.
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Edna Lyall was the pseudonym used by Ada Ellen Bayley. Bayly was born in Brighton, the youngest of four children of a barrister. At an early age, she lost both her parents and she spent her youth with an uncle in Surrey and in a Brighton private school. Bayly never married and she seems to have spent her adult life living in with her two married sisters and her brother, a clergyman in Bosbury in H
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