The morning call., 1893-01-01
The Only Dry.Goods House. In San
Francisco Doing Business on a Cash Basis
and Maintaining Strictly One Price.
A BRIGHT WOMAN.
Edna Eyall Lives Quietly in an Eng
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The young authoress of Donovan" and
1--WE Two is one OF the veiled personalities
of literary England. She lives at one of the
smaller south coast pleasure towns, seldom
comes to London. and is never seen In that:
world Of fashion and pleasure where most
Americans pass the time of their. visits
to the moth err country. During the last
few years there have been few books
more discussed In the:drawing-r and
at the dinner-ta table than those pub
lished in the name Of. Edna LYall. and
very interesting, and sometimes very anus
Ing, has 1t been TO hear the different
ideas that some OF their readers have
formed or her personal characteristics. II
need hardly be said that in most cases the:
imaginary Elm Lyall was IN sharp contrast
TO the real Edna Lyall
In thinking OF Edna Lyall. the imagina-
tion OF one of her London friends takes him
sixty miles from London TO an old-fasfiored
house in the pretty town of Eastbourne.
The house seems old -fas hjoned, yet, like
must Of the residences in Eastbonrne. it
must have been built within the last twenty
or thirty years. Its built:0f dark red brick in
the Gothic style, and is ivy-covered, and
having a quaint porch with an oyal-shaped
door has "a venerable. aspect that age has
not earned. The roadway is studded with
for its umbEageous thor0aghfares. and the
house is half hidden by foliage from its
neighbors, as well as from passers-by.
The house is that Of a Clergyman, as its
suggest who married Edna LyalPs elder
sister. The Rev. Mr. Jameson is ;curate
of ST. .Savior,s Church, the principal edi-
fee of the Established: Church of East.
bourne, s.: to which the: authoress pre-
scented peal Of bells which were purchased
a, i. Ntx@rz
of Donovan" From the windows of her
room on the upper story. of the house Edna
lyall can almost see the church. and the
music of the bells sometimes gives its mes
sage to her ears as she writes. In this room
were written, .'In the Golden Days" "A
1.-The Autobiography of SANDER
The authoress herself is now pale and
worn with an illness that Mesquite sus-
pended any literary work since the nubllea-
ton. of "a Hardy :NOrseman." The
eyes have lost alittfe.o of their luster and
the cheeks the color they. enee possessed.
The slight form is somewhat ! thinner,
and the: hand that clasps yours in
stinctiyely tells of of much suffering. But a.
bright smile is coupled with the assurance
of convalescence, and the voice, at first
weak and low, gathers lntonatiOn and quiet
force when the talk is on some stirring
topic. Like Charlotte Brente's heroine,
Ada Ellen Bayley {the pseudouym. you see
I is only "a tTanspositf0n Of some OF
the letters In her baptIsmal .Bame),
bas~no beauty beyond that intellectual
beauty to which Shelley wrote his WE'LL
known hymn. The face is: SMALL and of
uneven formation, the broad forehead hav-
ing a suggestion Of the masculine that
is secuted by the sweet and sympathetic
expression Of . the eyes. The brown
hair would be beautiful were IL not cut
short and arranged with AN almost severe
simplicity. She usually dresses in close
fitting garment of some plain. material.
Edna Lyall owes really all her charm to her
sympathetic presence, II may be pardoned
the expression, her spiritual earnestness
dominant qualities; there always seems To
be an undercurrent of sadness in her char
acter at the misery and woe In the world
around her. 49,