Mark Twain Settles Some Scores, 100 Years Later

“The three-tome work is one of the literary events of the decade and the first volume – already riding high in the US best-seller lists – will go on sale in Britain on Monday.
What will be revealed in its full ferocity is his loathing for Miss Lyon and her then-husband Ralph Ashcroft, a Briton who was the writer’s erstwhile business advisor.”