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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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.
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Connections Author name Excerpt
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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Intertextuality and Influence Ella Wheeler Wilcox
She took the title from a poem by Nora Perry called Norine, and aimed to equal the success of Lucile (a drama by Edward Bulwer Lytton which was later, after the appearance of Maurine...
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...
Leisure and Society Queen Victoria
Among her favourite writers were Alfred Tennyson , Sir Walter Scott , George Eliot (whose The Mill on the Floss made a deep impression
Victoria, Queen. Queen Victoria in Her Letters and Journals. Editor Hibbert, Christopher, Penguin.
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on her), and Charles Kingsley , whose Two Years Ago...
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.
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FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Harriet Smythies
The notes provide all kinds of contextual material, from official despatches and casualty lists to private letters. HS celebrates Edward Bulwer Lytton (who had two nephews at the war) both as a Tory and as...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
Critic Montague Summers suggests that HS 's close relationship with Edward Bulwer Lytton extended into her writing, saying that he helped her very generously in her novels, as must be obvious to any reader of...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Harriet Smythies
In a critical preface HS reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford or Edward Bulwer Lytton ). The two groups of lovers and...
Textual Features Harriet Smythies
The Feminist Companion, which names Edward Bulwer Lytton among her contemporary admirers, calls her work sometimes sensational, and always better on motives and manners than plots.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography find her...
Textual Production James Malcolm Rymer
The 1852 edtion claimed to be by the author of Paul Clifford, which, published in 1830, was the earliest popular highwayman novel, and was in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton .
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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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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...
Textual Production Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her second satirical novel, The Budget of the Bubble Family (which is based on that of her husband , the Bulwers).
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
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21 June 1737: The Licensing Act received royal assent:...

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21 June 1737

The Licensing Act received royal assent: the number of legitimate theatres in London was set at two, and plays were subject to censorship by the Lord Chamberlain.

30 November 1824: A banker, Henry Fauntleroy, was hanged for...

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30 November 1824

A banker, Henry Fauntleroy , was hanged for forgery at Newgate Prison in London, before a crowd of 100,000. The bank he had worked for was that of Anne Marsh 's husband's family.

1826: The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was...

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1826

The English Gypsy, or Roma, population was grouped by authorities with all nomadic or vagrant peoples, who were estimated by William Cobbett to number around 30,000.

3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...

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3 May 1834

William Harrison Ainsworth published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.

May 1837: Thomas Noon Talfourd, MP for Reading, author,...

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May 1837

Thomas Noon Talfourd , MP for Reading, author, and friend of the literati, began his campaign to extend the length of copyright.

3 March 1838: The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle:...

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3 March 1838

The first issue of The Monthly Chronicle: A National Journal of Politics, Literature, Science, and Art was published.

22 August 1843: The Theatres Regulation Act made it legal...

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22 August 1843

The Theatres Regulation Act made it legal for any theatre to become licensed for drama (thus expanding its repertoire) and required all new commercial plays to be approved by the Lord Chamberlain seven days before...

2 September 1852: The Manchester Free Library, the first major...

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2 September 1852

The Manchester Free Library , the first major British public lending library, opened in Manchester.

October 1852: Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice...

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October 1852

Mrs Maria Hayden brought the American practice of spiritualism across the ocean to England, where she advertised as a medium.

By 14 April 1855: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his...

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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.

Texts

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Current Crisis. Saunders and Ottley, 1834.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. A Strange Story. S. Low, 1862.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Devereux. A tale. Henry Colburn, 1829.
Wolff, Robert Lee et al. “Devoted Disciple: The Letters of Mary Elizabeth Braddon to Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, 1862-1873”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol.
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, pp. 1 - 35, 129.
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.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Eugene Aram. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1832.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Falkland. H. Colburn, 1827.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Ismael, an oriental tale, with other poems, etc. J. Hatchard & Son, 1820.
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.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Paul Clifford. H. Colburn and R. Bentley, 1830.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Paul Clifford. W. Scott, 1840.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Pelham. H. Colburn, 1828.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. “Review of <span data-tei-ns-tag="tei_title" data-tei-title-lvl=‘m’>Romance and Reality</span> by L.E.L”. The New Monthly Magazine, Vol.
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, No. 132, pp. 545-51.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. The Caxtons. W. Blackwood, 1849.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. The Coming Race. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1871.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. The Last Days of Pompeii. R. Bentley, 1834.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Sidney Hall. The Parisians. W. Blackwood and Sons, 1873.
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton,. Zanoni. Saunders and Otley, 1842.