Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton

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RBLBL wrote prolifically after her separation from her husband in 1836, penning sixteen novels, as well as a collection of essays and an autobiography. A vein of polemic runs through her work regarding the treatment of women, particularly married women, under nineteenth-century British law. She encountered great difficulty in getting her work published because of her notoriety and the pressure that her husband, a successful novelist, exerted on publishers. He even obtained legal injunctions against her work, which often parodied him.
Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, No. 3, pp. 210 - 36.
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Stipple engraving of the head of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, by John Jewell Penstone after Alfred Edward Chalon, 1852. Her face is framed by dark hair and a light gauzy scarf wrapped around her head. Her signature, "Rosina Lytton", appears below. National Portrait Gallery.

Milestones

4 November 1802
Rosina Wheeler (later RBLBL ) was born at her father's estate, Ballywire, near Limerick, in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
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By 30 March 1839
Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton) published her first novel, Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour, in three volumes.
It was reviewed on this date in the Athenæum by Sydney Morgan .
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
596 (1839): 235-6
12 March 1882
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton , died suddenly at her house, Glenomera, in Upper Sydenham.
Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1887.
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Biography

Birth and Background

4 November 1802
Rosina Wheeler (later RBLBL ) was born at her father's estate, Ballywire, near Limerick, in Ireland.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
viii
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
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