Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton

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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.
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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.

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Family and Intimate relationships Anna Wheeler
After twelve years of marriage, AW took both her daughters (of whom the younger, Rosina , was the future novelist Rosina Bulwer Lytton) and left her husband .
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