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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
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| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Wealth and Poverty | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | As result of her separation from Edward
and her reduced income (of four hundred pounds a year), Rosina Bulwer was forced to live either abroad or in the social back-waters Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xix |
| Literary responses | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Her husband, Edward Bulwer (later Bulwer Lytton)
, was embarrassed by Cheveley, seeing himself in the portrait of Lord De Clifford and his predilection for governesses, Sutherland, John. The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction. Stanford University Press. 119 |
| 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. preface |
| 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. |
| 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. 25 , No. 2, pp. 253-67. 259 |
| 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— Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton,. “Introduction”. A Blighted Life, edited by Marie Mulvey Roberts, Thoemmes, p. vi - xxxvi. xxvi |
| Reception | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | Louisa Devey claimed she was publishing the letters in vindication of her [RBLBL
's] memory Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham. prelims Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Editorial Materials”. Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife, edited by Louisa Devey, G. W. Dillingham. prelims |
| 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, p. vi - xxxvi. xvi |
| Travel | Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton | The Bulwers visited Naples together; that was one of the places where Edward
accused Rosina
of encouraging other men. Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
| 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. |
| 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... |
| Textual Features | 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... |
| 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... |
| Intertextuality and Influence | Harriet Smythies | In a critical preface HS
reveals her gender though not her name. She opens by invoking the author of Rienzi (either, Mary Russell Mitford
or Edward Bulwer Lytton
). The two groups of lovers and... |
| 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. |
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