Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
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Standard Name: Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton,,, first Baron
Birth Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer
Self-constructed Name: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Titled: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
, who began his prolific career as Edward Bulwer, wrote many kinds of novels—from the silver-fork genre (whose name derived from a derisive reference to Bulwer himself as a silver fork polisher
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in Fraser's Magazine ) and domestic fiction to crime or Newgate
novels (the forerunner of sensation fiction), science fiction, and occult stories. He also wrote three plays, several books of poetry, and an Arthurian epic, as well as editing The New Monthly Magazine from 1831 to 1833.
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
Serialisation in monthly parts significantly broadened the readership of The Pickwick Papers and meant that it was reviewed more widely than it would have been in volume form. Ironically, such cheapening of literature (CD
Publishing
Marion Moss
The sisters had access to some distinguished subscribers. They included not only Bulwer Lytton
(despite his conversionist characterisation of Jewish women in Leila)
Galchinsky, Michael. The Origin of the Modern Jewish Woman Writer. Wayne State University Press.
This was followed by a review, in the August issue, of the novels of Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer-Lytton)
(which she put forward as worth examining because of their moral qualities). Further essays by MF
appeared...
Occupation
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
made a life for himself as both diplomat and writer. His first book of poems, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, appeared in 1855 under the pseudonym...
Occupation
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
She played male parts in plays by Shakespeare
and others, not as burlesque, but as straight parts after the style of Charlotte Cushman
. At least one reviewer, in Coventry's Era, objected to...
Occupation
Jean Middlemass
JM
never acted in a theatre, though she recited at the Royal Pavilion, to a full audience at the Dome, and at many private parties. The parts she played included: Esther in Thomas William Robertson
Occupation
Barbarina Brand, Baroness Dacre
Pastimes at The Hoo included fox-hunting and an annual race-meeting, but also private theatricals (like those of Bulwer-Lytton at nearby Knebworth), for which BBBD
both wrote and performed. She also joined with Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Material Conditions of Writing
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
She sometimes kept a journal. Visiting Naples with her husband
she noted down brief accounts of sensational incidents of violence against her;
Roberts, Marie Mulvey. “’The Very Worst Woman I ever Heard of’: Rosina Bulwer Lytton and biography as vindication”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
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shortly before their separation she wrote: I have always remarked that every...
Literary responses
Mary Russell Mitford
Charles the First was received well by the Athenæum, which indicated that the performance provided genuine satisfaction to a very attentive audience and gratification in its most agreeable shape to the gifted lady,
Athenæum. J. Lection.
349 (1834): 508
Literary responses
Lady Caroline Lamb
When Glenarvon first appeared, said Lady Caroline, William Lamb
admired it so much that it was instrumental in bringing the separated couple back together.
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Joanna Baillie
discerned its author's ability, but added, Her...
Literary responses
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
His article, Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon, which covered seven novels she had published since 1862, made a famous personal attack in asserting that her work evidenced familiarity with a very low type of female...
Literary responses
Lady Caroline Lamb
William Lamb
worried intensely about the probable reception of Ada Reis, particularly the scenes in hell, and he tried to enlist William Gifford
of the Quarterly as an ally in pressuring Caroline to tone...
Literary responses
George Eliot
On the whole reviewers were enthusiastic (E. S. Dallas
began his notice in the Times, George Eliot is as great as ever
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), but the ending of The Mill on the Floss...
Literary responses
George Eliot
Many friends of GE
including Edith J. Simcox
, plus biographers such as Gordon S. Haight
, believed that readers had reason to be grateful to G. H. Lewes
for his tireless protection of GE
Literary responses
L. E. L.
The signature created immediate public enthusiasm, which was particularly strong among (male) undergraduates, who were interested in the writer's identity because of the poetry's romantic and sexual undertones. Landon rapidly became a public persona to...
