qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton
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Standard Name: Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton,,, first Baron
Birth Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer
Self-constructed Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Titled: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
, who began his prolific career as Edward Bulwer, wrote many kinds of novels—from the silver-fork genre (whose name derived from a derisive reference to Bulwer himself as a silver fork polisher
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Leisure and Society | Eliza Lynn Linton | In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind
against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence
the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer... |
| Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | Her husband, Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton)
, was embarrassed by Cheveley, seeing himself in the portrait of Lord De Clifford and his predilection for governesses, Sutherland, John, b. 1938. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press, 1989. 119 |
| Literary responses | Frances Mary Peard | This book began a friendship between FMP
and Edward Bulwer Lytton
, who asked for an introduction because he so much admired her style. Harris, Mary J. Y. Memoirs of Frances Mary Peard. W. H. Smith, 1930. 52 |
| Literary responses | Ouida | The Athenæum criticized the novel for its monotonous misery and suggested that the author should have left religious speculation alone instead of using the novel to insist that Christianity as a Religion of Love is... |
| Literary responses | Anna Maria Hall | The August 1831 review in Fraser's Magazine, possibly penned by Irish writer William Maginn
, accused AMH
of plagiarism—claiming that her story The Rapparee was uncomfortably similar to Bulwer Lytton
's Paul Clifford. Keane, Maureen. Mrs. S.C. Hall: A Literary Biography. Colin Smythe, 1997. 8, 234 |
| Literary responses | Mary Russell Mitford | Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady, Athenæum. J. Lection. 349 (1834): 508 |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together. Morgan, Sydney Owenson, Lady. Lady Morgan’s Memoirs. Editors Dixon, William Hepworth and Geraldine Jewsbury, AMS Press, 1975, 2 vols. 2: 202 |
| Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | His article, Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon, which covered seven novels she had published since 1862, made a famous personal attack in asserting that her work evidenced familiarity with a very low type of female... |
| Literary responses | Lady Caroline Lamb | William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone... |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever qtd. in Carroll, David, editor. George Eliot: The Critical Heritage. Barnes and Noble, 1971. 131 |
| Literary responses | George Eliot | Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE |
| Literary responses | L. E. L. | The signature created immediate public enthusiasm, which was particularly strong among (male) undergraduates, who were interested in the writer's identity because of the poetry's romantic and sexual undertones. Landon rapidly became a public persona to... |
| Literary responses | Margaret Oliphant | MO
's The Secret Chamber, which first appeared in Blackwood's in December 1876 and was reprinted in Tales from Blackwood (1778-80 series), was called by the Athenæum perhaps the most striking ghost story since... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | She sometimes kept a journal. Visiting Naples with her husband
she noted down brief accounts of sensational incidents of violence against her; qtd. in Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “’The Very Worst Woman I ever Heard of’: Rosina Bulwer Lytton and biography as vindication”. Women’s Writing, Vol. 25 , No. 2, May 2018, pp. 253-67. 259 |
| Occupation | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
made a life for himself as both diplomat and writer. His first book of poems, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, appeared in 1855 under the pseudonym... |
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