Rosina's father, Francis Massey Wheeler
, was a wealthy landowner, a sportsman, and an alcoholic. He died in 1820.
Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi.
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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
.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.
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Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wheeler
AW
's estranged husband, Francis Massey Wheeler
, died in Ireland.
Kelly, Gary, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 158. Gale Research, 1996.
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Family and Intimate relationships
Anna Wheeler
At probably about fifteen, Anna Doyle married her nineteen-year-old neighbour Francis Massey Wheeler
, despite her widowed mother's disapproval. Francis, often described in biographical accounts of AW
as a fool, was a wealthy landlord...
Residence
Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
Rosina Wheeler (later Bulwer Lytton)
was not yet ten when in August 1812 her mother
left her father
. She took her two surviving daughters and moved with them to Guernsey.
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931.