qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
103
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 ascending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Publishing | Margaret Fuller | This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared... |
| Publishing | Georgiana Chatterton | She sent out copies to Cardinal Wiseman
, William Holman Hunt
(who expressed his delight), Thomas Carlyle
, Alfred Lord Tennyson
(who called it picturesque), Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and German historian Leopold Ranke
. |
| Publishing | Charles Dickens | Serialisation in monthly parts significantly broadened the readership of The Pickwick Papers and meant that it was reviewed more widely than it would have been in volume form. Ironically, such cheapening of literature (CD |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Jean Middlemass | JM
never acted in a theatre, though she recited at the Royal Pavilion, to a full audience at the Dome, and at many private parties. The parts she played included: Esther in Thomas William Robertson |
| Occupation | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to... |
| Occupation | Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre | Pastimes at The Hoo included fox-hunting and an annual race-meeting, but also private theatricals (like those of Bulwer-Lytton at nearby Knebworth), for which BBBD
both wrote and performed. She also joined with Edward Bulwer-Lytton |
| 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 |
| 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 | 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 | 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... |
| 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 |
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