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
qtd. in
Mitchell, Sally, editor. Victorian Britain: An Encyclopedia. Garland Press, 1988.
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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, 1988.
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
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.
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Friends, Associates
Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
Their mother was living in Paris at this time, and Rosina lived in London with her uncle Sir John Doyle
(latterly without her sister, who joined their mother in Paris). She reputedly had an unusual...
Violence
Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
The Bulwers' marriage was tempestuous, abusive, and scandal-ridden. Edward
was not only unfaithful but also abusive. On one occasion he bit a chunk out of Rosina's cheek during a fight; another time, she burnt her...
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
Friends, Associates
Barbarina Brand Baroness Dacre
BBBD
's circle of friends at this period of her life, many of them entertained by herself and her husband at the Hoo but many whose relationship with her went back to long before her...