She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer
, on 8 November 1831.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable.
161
He became a diplomat and, as Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, a stage-manager of imperial pomp when...
Family and Intimate relationships
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina had custody of her two children, Robert
and Emily
, for the first two years after her separation from her husband. During this time she lived with her children in Ireland.
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 Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A.E. Chalon, R.A., Nash, pp. 9 - 26; various pages.
22-3
However...
Textual Production
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
It had been written in 1866 but was not published for almost fifteen years (perhaps for fear of being sued for libel). One of her other life-writing texts was called Nemesis. She claimed that...
Textual Production
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She always claimed, as she does here, that A Blighted Life had never been written for publication. She wrote this pamphlet in an effort to smooth relations with her son
(who controlled her allowance, and...
Reception
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Devey followed this in 1887 with a second publication, Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton, with numerous extracts from her MS. autobiography and other original documents, published in vindication of her memory. The title-page bore...
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...
Literary responses
Katharine Tynan
KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume.
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
103
Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina
and Dante Gabriel Rossetti
.
Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne.
37
Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards.
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...
