Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
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silver fork polisher in Fraser's Magazine ) and domestic fiction to crime or
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.
, 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