IN SPITE OF ALL

Sinopsis de IN SPITE OF ALL

Edna Lyall was born in Brighton on the 25th March, 1857, the youngest of four children of a barrister who died when she was eleven. Her mother, Mary Winter died three years later, an experience which Ada Bayly was later to write about in her novel We Two where the heroine Erica returns home after her mother's death. The young Ada had been ill with scarlet fever when her mother died, staying in lodgings with a faithful servant - "For those who have to come back to the empty house, the home which never can be home again, may God comfort them, no one else can." Being delicate in health she was educated partly at home, partly by an uncle who became her guardian and partly at boarding school.