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Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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Philip Newnham
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Edna Lyall
As readers recognized at once, Luke Raeburn, the embattled atheist in this book, noticeably resembles the politician
Charles Bradlaugh
, who was excluded from taking his seat in the
House of Commons
after repeatedly being...
Dedications
Edna Lyall
She was introduced to the publishers of this novel,
Hurst and Blackett
, through the good offices of the writer
George Macdonald
.
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Escreet, J. M.
The Life of Edna Lyall
. Longmans, Green and Co.
45
She dedicated the work to her cousin the Rev.
Philip Newnham
Cultural formation
Edna Lyall
Her family had been
Roman Catholic
back in 1605, at the height of Catholic unrest and persecution of Catholics in England.
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Escreet, J. M.
The Life of Edna Lyall
. Longmans, Green and Co.
3
EL
, however, came from a liberal
Unitarian
background: her father (to whom...
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