Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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.
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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.
Their mother was living in Paris at this time, and Rosina lived in London with her uncle Sir John Doyle
(latterly without her sister, who joined their mother in Paris). She reputedly had an unusual...
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.
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Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem...
Friends, Associates
L. E. L.
LEL
's friends Anna Maria Hall
, Katherine Thomson
, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton
defended her reputation against scandal. However, around the time of this broken engagement, Lytton began to credit her husband's account of...
Friends, Associates
Caroline Norton
Before her marriage CN
had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore
, once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...
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/.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Friends, Associates
Harriette Wilson
Back in England, HW
attempted to cultivate new friendships. She corresponded with Bulwer Lytton
in letters full of acute criticism of his writing, but never persuaded him to know her socially.
Wilson, Frances. The Courtesan’s Revenge. Faber.
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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 elder sister said Constance had no tenderness for her famous paternal grandfather, the writer Edward Bulwer Lytton
. About his genius she cared nothing, and for his character she had no liking.
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour, Heinemann.
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She...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His mother was the novelist Rosina Bulwer Lytton
. Her often violent marriage to Edward Bulwer Lytton
ended in a very public separation. While she initially retained custody of their two children, Emily and young...
Family and Intimate relationships
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
His father, Edward Bulwer Lytton
, was a novelist and politician.
Family and Intimate relationships
Harriet Smythies
After she began her career as a novelist, HS
moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth
and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton
. Literary historian Montague Summers...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Wheeler
married novelist Edward Bulwer
(later Edward Bulwer Lytton); his mother strongly opposed the marriage.
He changed his name to Bulwer Lytton on inheriting his mother's estates.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton
) separated from her husband, Edward Bulwer
.
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, pp. 9 - 26; various pages.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Lady Caroline Lamb
She is said during this year to have had an affair with the twenty-one-year-old Edward Bulwer
, later Bulwer Lytton, who was still an undergraduate. He himself said, however, that she had steadfastly refused to...
