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
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press.
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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.
The Feminist Companion, which names Edward Bulwer Lytton
among her contemporary admirers, calls her work sometimes sensational, and always better on motives and manners than plots.
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography find her...
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Harriet Smythies
Critic Montague Summers
suggests that HS
's close relationship with Edward Bulwer Lytton
extended into her writing, saying that he helped her very generously in her novels, as must be obvious to any reader of...
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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.
MEB
sought here to follow Bulwer-Lytton
's advice to produce a story in which action flowed from character, rather than characters being merely marionettes, the slaves of the story.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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Set in contemporary London and...
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Anne Mozley
The review of Adam Bede is indeed most perceptive as well as detailed. AM
begins by noticing how novels have been expanding their empire: how many have been added to their readership by the newer...
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Mary Elizabeth Braddon
In a letter to Bulwer-Lytton
from this period, Braddon admits studying the inventive plotting of Frédéric Soulié
and borrowing from it.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland.
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This plot-driven sensation novel features a former valet, Joseph Wilmot, who, having taken...
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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...
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James Malcolm Rymer
The 1852 edtion claimed to be by the author of Paul Clifford, which, published in 1830, was the earliest popular highwayman novel, and was in fact by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
.
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Rosina Bulwer (later Baroness Lytton)
published her second satirical novel, The Budget of the Bubble Family (which is based on that of her husband
, the Bulwers).
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Athenæum. J. Lection.
675 (1840): 766
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
Rosina Bulwer Lytton
's autobiography was published: A Blighted Life described her confinement by her husband
to a lunatic asylum in 1858 after she spoke out about his political career.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
Two years after the death of Rosina Bulwer Lytton
, her literary executrix, Louisa Devey
, published Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer Lytton, Lord Lytton
, to His Wife.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton
In it she used public humiliation in an attempt to persuade her husband
to increase her allowance. She denounced him as a literary Cagliostro
, political Titus Oates
and marital Henry the Eighth—
Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi.
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Eliza Cook
Eliza Cook's Journal takes the form of discrete essays by EC
and others; poems, too, were included. The language is informal and conversational, though a heavy use of quotation-marks for words or phrases deemed in...
