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
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Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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in Fraser's Magazine ) and domestic fiction to crime or Newgate novels (the forerunner of sensation fiction), science fiction, and occult stories. He also wrote three plays, several books of poetry, and an Arthurian epic, as well as editing The New Monthly Magazine from 1831 to 1833.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook's Journal takes the form of discrete essays by EC and others; poems, too, were included. The language is informal and conversational, though a heavy use of quotation-marks for words or phrases deemed in...
Travel Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
The Bulwers visited Naples together; that was one of the places where Edward accused Rosina of encouraging other men.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Violence Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer Lytton (later Baroness Lytton ) was committed to a lunatic asylum by her estranged husband, Edward Bulwer Lytton , after she made a public speech in Hertford against his candidacy for parliament as...
Violence Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
The Bulwers' marriage was tempestuous, abusive, and scandal-ridden. Edward was not only unfaithful but also abusive. On one occasion he bit a chunk out of Rosina's cheek during a fight; another time, she burnt her...
Wealth and Poverty Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
As result of her separation from Edward and her reduced income (of four hundred pounds a year), Rosina Bulwer was forced to live either abroad or in the social back-waters
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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of Britain.
Wealth and Poverty Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington
In her first book she had described attendance at this kind of auction as a fashionable amusement. The sale, which took place after she had fled the country, realised only £12,000.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton paid seven...

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