qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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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, 1988.
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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Textual Features | 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, 1979. 128 |
| Textual Features | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | Much of RBLBL
's non-fictional writing, both public statement and private life-writing, makes explicit the personal and professional experiences, the social critique, and the hatred of her husband
, which are all evident in her novels. |
| Textual Features | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | The setting is fashionable society in Rome. Characters based on actual originals include a caricature of Bulwer-Lytton
as Webworth (an allusion to his his estate at Knebworth). Burmester, James et al. English Books. James Burmester Rare Books, 1985–2025, Numbered catalogues. (2016) List xl |
| Textual Features | Barbara Hofland | BH
explains that she intends to vindicate the character of Richard III
(who in her view came back as Perkin Warbeck
) and expose Henry VII
as a villain. She used the British Museum
again... |
| Textual Features | 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, 1980. 198 |
| Textual Features | Harriet Smythies | 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, 1990. |
| Textual Production | 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. Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xxvii, xxxvi |
| Textual Production | Charles Dickens | Other contributions were appeared from Mrs Alexander
, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
, Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, Caroline Chisholm
(later parodied by CD
), Wilkie Collins
, Dinah Mulock
and Georgiana Craik
, Amelia B. Edwards
,... |
| Textual Production | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | 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. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | 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
. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
| Textual Production | 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... |
| Textual Production | Marguerite Gardiner Countess of Blessington | This work involved her in finding—and engaging in voluminous correspondence with—contributors (who often were or became her personal friends), such as Anna Maria Hall
, Felicia Hemans
, Amelia Opie
, Mary Russell Mitford
,... |
| Textual Production | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | 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). Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xxxv Athenæum. J. Lection. 675 (1840): 766 Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Harriet Smythies | The notes provide all kinds of contextual material, from official despatches and casualty lists to private letters. HS
celebrates Edward Bulwer Lytton
(who had two nephews at the war) both as a Tory and as... |
| Theme or Topic Treated in Text | 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— qtd. in Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, 1994, p. vi - xxxvi. xxvi |
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