Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton

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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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Milestones

25 May 1803

Edward George Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) , future novelist and politician, was born at 31 Baker Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

May 1828

Edward Bulwer published his second novel, the phenomenally successful portrait of a dandy titled Pelham; or, The Adventures of a Gentleman, a three-volume silver-fork novel that introduced the custom of dark suits for men.
Drabble, Margaret, editor. The Oxford Companion to English Literature. Oxford University Press.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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1830

Edward Bulwer , as the author of Pelham, published his fifth novel, Paul Clifford, in three volumes; this story of a genteel highwayman was the first of the Newgate or crime novels and an attack on capital punishment.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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By 27 May 1871

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton , anonymously published his popular science fiction novel The Coming Race.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
2274 (27 May 1871): 649

October 1872-January 1874

Edward Bulwer-Lytton 's final novel, The Parisians, set during the second French empire, was serialised in Blackwood's Magazine, the latter part posthumously.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press.

18 January 1873

Novelist and politician Edward Bulwer-Lytton, now Baron Lytton , died at his winter home, Argyll Hall in Torquay, Devon.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Biography

Birth and Family

25 May 1803

Edward George Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton) , future novelist and politician, was born at 31 Baker Street, London.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

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