Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton

04 November 1802 - 12 March 1882

Standard Name: Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton,,, Baroness

Birth Name: Rosina Wheeler

Married Name: Rosina Bulwer Lytton

Pseudonym: Hon. George Scott

RBLBL wrote prolifically after her separation from her husband in 1836, penning sixteen novels, as well as a collection of essays and an autobiography. A vein of polemic runs through her work regarding the treatment of women, particularly married women, under nineteenth-century British law. She encountered great difficulty in getting her work published because of her notoriety and the pressure that her husband, a successful novelist, exerted on publishers. He even obtained legal injunctions against her work, which often parodied him.

Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort ascending	Excerpt
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Wheeler	After twelve years of marriage, AW took both her daughters (of whom the younger, Rosina , was the future novelist Rosina Bulwer Lytton) and left her husband . Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable. 72-3 Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research. 349
Family and Intimate relationships	Anna Wheeler	The younger daughter, Rosina (born on 4 November 1802), as Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, achieved some fame as a novelist and notoriety as a woman violently at odds with her husband.
Friends, Associates	Anna Wheeler	His fuller description (in a letter to his sister) was not so pleasant, something between Jeremy Bentham and Meg Merrilies, very clever, but awfully revolutionary. Disraeli, Benjamin. Lord Beaconsfield’s Correspondence With His Sister 1832-1852. John Murray. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem...
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Trollope	FT 's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research. 21: 324 Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 135 However, her writing brought her into a supportive network...
Textual Features	Flora Tristan	One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 198 FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Friends, Associates	Sydney Owenson, Lady Morgan	In London in 1824 she had a socially unsuccessful meeting with Wordsworth , who was by now a thorough reactionary in politics. He went to some pains to snub her; she refused to notice this...
Friends, Associates	Elizabeth Isabella Spence	During the 1820s Spence and Benger, then past their youth and each living on a pittance, were associated in running a salon on the model of those of the rich (like Lady Holland) or the...
Occupation	Frances Arabella Rowden	FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Melvill	Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition. Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol. 68 , No. 1, pp. 38-77. 40 John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...
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	Constance Lytton	Her paternal grandmother, Rosina Bulwer Lytton , became a novelist and a supporter of women's rights after separating from her husband. She died on 12 March 1882, when Constance was just thirteen. For Constance (who...
Friends, Associates	Lady Caroline Lamb	LCL 's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with...
Fictionalization	Lady Caroline Lamb	The other great love of her life, her husband, was equally productive for fictionalized versions of her character and doings. The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography cites among novels dealing with her marriage Thomas Lister
Cultural formation	L. E. L.	There are indications, however, that a rather suspect class standing contributed along with somewhat bohemian behaviour to the difficulty she had about weathering scandal. Benjamin Disraeli famously and snobbishly wrote of a party at the
Friends, Associates	L. E. L.	By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure...

Timeline

June 1874

In an infamous Fortnightly Review article, Henry Maudsley condemned education for women as injurious to their bodies and as presaging a sexless race.

1943

Lady Eve Balfour , an early proponent of organic farming (an earl's daughter whose dazzling family connections made her a descendant of the writer Rosina Bulwer Lytton and niece of the suffragists Frances Balfour and...

Texts

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. A Blighted Life. The London Publishing Office, 1880.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. A Blighted Life. Editor Roberts, Marie Mulvey, Thoemmes, 1994.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Behind the Scenes. C. J. Skeet, 1854.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Bianca Cappello. William H. Colver, 1843.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Bianca Cappello. Edward Bull, 1843.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour. Edward Bull, 1839.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Clumber Chase; or, Love’s Riddle Solved by a Royal Sphinx. 1871.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham, 1976.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.

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.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the Justice and Charity of the English Public. Printed for and published by the author, 1857.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife. W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Memoirs of a Muscovite. T. C. Newby, 1844.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. W. Shoberl, 1851.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Refutation of an Audacious Forgery of the Dowager Lady Lytton’s Name to a Book of the Publication of Which she was Totally Ignorant. Privately printed for the author, 1880.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, 1876, http://U of Toronto.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Budget of the Bubble Family. Edward Bull, 1840.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Household Fairy. Hall, 1870.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Peer’s Daughters. T. C. Newby, 1849.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Prince-Duke and the Page. T. and W. Boone, 1841.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The School for Husbands. A. Hart, 1852.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The School for Husbands. C. J. Skeet, 1852.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The World and His Wife; or, A Person of Consequence. C. J. Skeet, 1858.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, and Stewart Marsh Ellis. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A. E. Chalon, R. A. E. Nash, 1914.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Very Successful!. Whitaker, 1856.