Derrick Vaughan, Novelist

Edna Lyall - the pen name of Ada Ellen Bayly, a clergyman's daughter who argued in fiction for Home Rule, for women, and for freethinkers - turns here to the writing life itself. Seen through the eyes of a devoted friend, a novelist endures years of rejection, a father who despises his work, and a patient girl who waits, until reputation arrives slowly and almost by surprise. Her quietest book, an...