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.
HM
's social circle vastly expanded at this time until she knew virtually all the prominent people, particularly the political men, of her day. As she recorded in her Autobiography, however, she refused to...
Friends, Associates
Fanny Aikin Kortright
She was a friend of Nathaniel Hawthorne
(whom she never met, but of whose wife and family she remained a faithful friend and correspondent after Hawthorne's death), Bulwer Lytton
, and Charles Kingsley
(all of...
Friends, Associates
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
MEB
shared a candid literary correspondence with Edward Bulwer-Lytton
from early in her career until his death in 1873. To him she confided many of her anxieties about writing and her thoughts on other writers...
Friends, Associates
Lady Caroline Lamb
LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped...
Friends, Associates
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
BBBD
's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her...
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...
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
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
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
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
.
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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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Friends, Associates
Marguerite Gardiner, Countess of Blessington
From 1832, when she began writing and editing in earnest, she entertained such figures as Benjamin Robert Haydon
, Isaac D'Israeli
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, and Byron's former mistress the Countess Guiccioli
(who visited England...
