Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton

08 November 1831 - 24 November 1891

Standard Name: Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton,,, first Earl

Birth Name: Edward Robert Bulwer

Self-constructed Name: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton

Titled: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton

Titled: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl Lytton

Pseudonym: Owen Meredith

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Birth	Constance Lytton	Lady CL was born in Vienna, where her father was then at the British embassy. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Dedications	Florence Dixie	She was by this time a seasoned author. She dedicated the book to Edward Bulwer-Lytton , who had encouraged the idea of publication when she was still in her teens, Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965. 81 as a kindred spirit...
Family and Intimate relationships	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton	On 8 November 1831, Edward Bulwer 's second child with his wife Rosina , Edward Robert Bulwer , was born. He grew up to be a writer like both of his parents, as well as a diplomat. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931. 161
Family and Intimate relationships	Maria Riddell	Her daughter, Anna Maria , married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker , and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR 's grandsons took an interest...
Family and Intimate relationships	Constance Lytton	CL 's father, Edward Robert Bulwer (first earl Lytton) or Owen Meredith, was a child of the abusive marriage between two writers, Rosina Bulwer Lytton and Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton). Edward Robert became a...
Family and Intimate relationships	Isa Blagden	IB nursed Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton , diplomat, author, and son of Rosina Bulwer Lytton , through a serious bout of gastric fever. Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. xii , 1943, pp. 446-63. 450 Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii. xxviii
Family and Intimate relationships	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer , on 8 November 1831. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931. 161 He became a diplomat and, as Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, a stage-manager of imperial pomp when...
Family and Intimate relationships	Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton	Rosina had custody of her two children, Robert and Emily , for the first two years after her separation from her husband. During this time she lived with her children in Ireland. Ellis, Stewart Marsh, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Introduction and Notes”. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A.E. Chalon, R.A., Nash, 1914, pp. 9 - 26; various pages. 22-3 However...
Friends, Associates	Florence Dixie	When she was only fifteen Lady Florence had a chance encounter with Edward Bulwer-Lytton , with whom she formed a precocious friendship. Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965. 81 Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press, 1903. 181-2
Friends, Associates	Violet Fane	Her father had literary friends, and among them introduced her to Edward Bulwer-Lytton (probably the father rather than the son ), Edward FitzGerald , and George Borrow . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Friends, Associates	Anna Steele	Through her youngest sister AS met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell (Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy , novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP...
Intertextuality and Influence	Matilda Hays	Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson , Longfellow (used...
Literary responses	Katharine Tynan	KT later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti . Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne, 1979. 37 qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 William Rossetti ...
Literary responses	Isa Blagden	Henry James dismissed IB 's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster. qtd. in West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982. 446 IB 's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Literary responses	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	Robert Buchanan in the Athenæum speculated that the author was a woman, and called the poem a rhythmical paraphrase of the prose popularized by the Times Correspondents. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1739 (1861): 259 He detected the influence of...

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By 14 April 1855

Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his first book of poetry, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, as Owen Meredith.

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.