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Birth | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | The future diplomat and poet Edward Robert Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton
, who also used the pseudonym Owen Meredith) was born in London, the younger child of writers Rosina
and Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton)
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. |
Characters | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | It opens with a Notice attacking her critics, the same gang of male and female Infamies employed before by the great Literary Bombastes. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. Very Successful!. Whitaker, 1856. preface |
Cultural formation | L. E. L. | There are indications, however, that a rather suspect class standing contributed along with somewhat bohemian behaviour to the difficulty she had about weathering scandal. Benjamin Disraeli
famously and snobbishly wrote of a party at the |
Dedications | Marion Moss | In collaboration with her sister Celia
, MM
published by subscription The Romance of Jewish History, a three-volume set of short stories and novellas, dedicated to Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton)
. Zatlin, Linda Gertner. The Nineteenth-Century Anglo-Jewish Novel. Twayne, 1981. 30 Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press, 1996. 108 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. 687 (26 December 1840): 1024 |
Education | L. M. Montgomery | LMM
attended a one-room schoolhouse across the road from her grandparents' farmhouse, completing her time there in 1892. The following year, she went to the Prince of Wales College
in Charlottetown for teacher training. Her... |
Education | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Mary Elizabeth read early and voraciously, polishing off Anna Maria Hall
's three-volume Marian when she was only seven. By nine she was reading Scott
and Dickens
. One of the family servants introduced her... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton
) separated from her husband, Edward Bulwer
. 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 Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A.E. Chalon, R.A., Nash, 1914, pp. 9 - 26; various pages. 22 Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xvii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Lady Caroline Lamb | She is said during this year to have had an affair with the twenty-one-year-old Edward Bulwer
, later Bulwer Lytton, who was still an undergraduate. He himself said, however, that she had steadfastly refused to... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | CL
's father, Edward Robert Bulwer
(first earl Lytton) or Owen Meredith, was a child of the abusive marriage between two writers, Rosina Bulwer Lytton
and Edward Bulwer
(later Bulwer-Lytton). Edward Robert became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | Her elder sister said Constance had no tenderness for her famous paternal grandfather, the writer Edward Bulwer Lytton
. About his genius she cared nothing, and for his character she had no liking. Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Elizabeth Edith, Countess of Balfour,Editor , Heinemann, 1925. 21 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | His mother was the novelist Rosina Bulwer Lytton
. Her often violent marriage to Edward Bulwer Lytton
ended in a very public separation. While she initially retained custody of their two children, Emily and young... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton | His father, Edward Bulwer Lytton
, was a novelist and politician. |
Family and Intimate relationships | Harriet Smythies | After she began her career as a novelist, HS
moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth
and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton
. Literary historian Montague Summers... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Rosina Wheeler
married novelist Edward Bulwer
(later Edward Bulwer Lytton); his mother strongly opposed the marriage. He changed his name to Bulwer Lytton on inheriting his mother's estates. Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xvi |
Friends, Associates | Lady Caroline Lamb | LCL
was for most of her adult life a good friend of Sydney Morgan
, to whom she confided many stories of her childhood and youth, which Morgan preserved in her diaries. She later helped... |