Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton

04 November 1802 - 12 March 1882

Standard Name: Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton,,, Baroness

Birth Name: Rosina Wheeler

Married Name: Rosina Bulwer Lytton

Pseudonym: Hon. George Scott

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, Vol.

, No. 3, pp. 210-36.

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Connections

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Wealth and Poverty	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton	He also sold off all of his new wife 's assets. He then announced that he had got every shilling of her property, and she was completely in his power. Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, http://U. of Toronto. 426 Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xvi
Violence	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton	The marriage was fraught with violence. Edward once bit a chunk out of his wife's cheek during a fight. During another dispute, Rosina burnt Edward's favourite shirt. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xvi Blain, Virginia. “Rosina Bulwer Lytton and the Rage of the Unheard”. The Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol. 53 , No. 3, pp. 210-36. 225
Violence	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton	On 21 June 1858, Bulwer Lytton committed his estranged wife, Rosina Bulwer Lytton , to a lunatic asylum after she spoke publicly in Hertford against his candidacy for parliament as a Tory. Public outrage over...
Textual Production	Matilda Betham-Edwards	Owen Meredith was the son of two writers: Rosina and Edward Bulwer Lytton . He was born in 1831, five years before his parents separated. He was about seven when his father removed him from...
Textual Features	Flora Tristan	One chapter, entitled English Women, criticizes British social systems, and details the consequences women suffer because of the indissolubility of marriage. Tristan, Flora. Flora Tristan’s London Journal, 1840. Translators Palmer, Dennis and Giselle Pincetl, Charles River Books. 198 FT shows particular sympathy for Rosina Bulwer Lytton , whom she depicts...
Occupation	Frances Arabella Rowden	FAR was clearly a key element, perhaps the key element, in the success of the Hans Place school. She taught the general curriculum there for nearly twenty-five years, from its founding until 1818, and she...
Literary responses	Elizabeth Melvill	Comments on Ane Godlie Dreame, though sparse, have been persistent. John Livingstone recorded that she was famous for her dream anent her spirituall condition. Baxter, Jamie Reid. “Elizabeth Melville, Lady Culross: new light from Fife”. The Innes Review, Vol. 68 , No. 1, pp. 38-77. 40 John Armstrong in 1770 thought it almost too terrible...
Leisure and Society	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	Late in life EOB ran a kind of salon which was remarkable for being bohemian and operating on a shoestring: with tea rather than wine (unlike the lavish salons of contemporary society hostesses like Lady Holland
Intertextuality and Influence	Frances Trollope	FT 's years of literary success were marked by tragedy: she lost two of her children to consumption, and eventually lost a third. Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 21. Gale Research. 21: 324 Heineman, Helen. Mrs. Trollope: The Triumphant Feminine in the Nineteenth Century. Ohio University Press. 135 However, her writing brought her into a supportive network...
Friends, Associates	Anna Maria Hall	One of AMH 's closest friends was the actress Helen Faucit , later Lady Martin. Though socially conservative in her attitudes, she was apparently more ready than her husband to achieve friendly relations with those...
Friends, Associates	Lady Caroline Lamb	LCL 's friendships with women writers (besides Morgan) would surprise anyone not taking her seriously as a writer. When Germaine de Staël visited England, Lady Caroline was delighted to find her wearing a hat with...
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. 15 Meg Merrilies was a fictitious gipsy in a poem...
Friends, Associates	L. E. L.	By the time LEL began living alone, she was well-known in literary circles. She became a good friend of Emma Roberts and Rosina Bulwer-Lytton around this time, and gradually became a recognized London public figure...
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	Elizabeth Ogilvy Benger	At the same period EOB was a friend of another miscellaneous writer, Elizabeth Isabella Spence , who entertained in the same eccentric, low-budget style. These two elderly ladies (Spence was ten years older than Benger)...

Timeline

June 1874

In an infamous Fortnightly Review article, Henry Maudsley condemned education for women as injurious to their bodies and as presaging a sexless race.

1943

Lady Eve Balfour , an early proponent of organic farming (an earl's daughter whose dazzling family connections made her a descendant of the writer Rosina Bulwer Lytton and niece of the suffragists Frances Balfour and...

Texts

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. A Blighted Life. The London Publishing Office, 1880.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. A Blighted Life. Editor Roberts, Marie Mulvey, Thoemmes, 1994.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Behind the Scenes. C. J. Skeet, 1854.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Bianca Cappello. William H. Colver, 1843.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Bianca Cappello. Edward Bull, 1843.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Cheveley; or, The Man of Honour. Edward Bull, 1839.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Clumber Chase; or, Love’s Riddle Solved by a Royal Sphinx. 1871.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham, 1976.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.

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, 1914, pp. 9 - 26; various pages.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Lady Bulwer Lytton’s Appeal to the Justice and Charity of the English Public. Printed for and published by the author, 1857.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife. W. Swan Sonnenschein, 1884.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Memoirs of a Muscovite. T. C. Newby, 1844.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Miriam Sedley; or, The Tares and the Wheat. W. Shoberl, 1851.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Refutation of an Audacious Forgery of the Dowager Lady Lytton’s Name to a Book of the Publication of Which she was Totally Ignorant. Privately printed for the author, 1880.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Shells from the Sands of Time. Bickers and Son, 1876, http://U of Toronto.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Budget of the Bubble Family. Edward Bull, 1840.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Household Fairy. Hall, 1870.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Peer’s Daughters. T. C. Newby, 1849.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The Prince-Duke and the Page. T. and W. Boone, 1841.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The School for Husbands. A. Hart, 1852.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The School for Husbands. C. J. Skeet, 1852.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. The World and His Wife; or, A Person of Consequence. C. J. Skeet, 1858.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, and Stewart Marsh Ellis. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A. E. Chalon, R. A. E. Nash, 1914.

Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Very Successful!. Whitaker, 1856.