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Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton first Earl Lytton
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Standard Name: Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton,,, first Earl
Birth Name: Edward Robert Bulwer
Self-constructed Name: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
Titled: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
Titled: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, Earl Lytton
Pseudonym: Owen Meredith
Connections
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Birth | Constance Lytton | |
Dedications | Florence Dixie | She was by this time a seasoned author. She dedicated the book to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, who had encouraged the idea of publication when she was still in her teens, Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965. 81 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Maria Riddell | Her daughter, Anna Maria
, married a naval officer, Charles Montagu Walker
, and had eight children. Most of her inheritance vanished in mortgages and contested ownership. One of MR
's grandsons took an interest... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Constance Lytton | CL
's father, Edward Robert Bulwer
(first earl Lytton) or Owen Meredith, was a child of the abusive marriage between two writers, Rosina Bulwer Lytton
and Edward Bulwer
(later Bulwer-Lytton). Edward Robert became a... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Isa Blagden | IB
nursed Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
, diplomat, author, and son of Rosina Bulwer Lytton
, through a serious bout of gastric fever. Raymond, William O. “Our Lady of Bellosguardo: A Pastel Portrait”. University of Toronto Quarterly, Vol. xii , 1943, pp. 446-63. 450 Browning, Robert, and Isa Blagden. “Introduction”. Dearest Isa: Robert Browning’s Letters to Isabella Blagden, edited by Edward C. McAleer, Greenwood Press, 1970, p. xix - xxxiii. xxviii |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer
, on 8 November 1831. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931. 161 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton | Rosina had custody of her two children, Robert
and Emily
, for the first two years after her separation from her husband. During this time she lived with her children in Ireland. Ellis, Stewart Marsh, and Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton. “Introduction and Notes”. Unpublished Letters of Lady Bulwer Lytton to A.E. Chalon, R.A., Nash, 1914, pp. 9 - 26; various pages. 22-3 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton first Baron Lytton | On 8 November 1831, Edward Bulwer
's second child with his wife Rosina
, Edward Robert Bulwer
, was born. He grew up to be a writer like both of his parents, as well as a diplomat. Sadleir, Michael. Bulwer: A Panorama. Constable, 1931. 161 |
Friends, Associates | Florence Dixie | When she was only fifteen Lady Florence had a chance encounter with Edward Bulwer-Lytton
, with whom she formed a precocious friendship. Roberts, Brian. Ladies in the Veld. John Murray, 1965. 81 Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press, 1903. 181-2 |
Friends, Associates | Violet Fane | Her father had literary friends, and among them introduced her to Edward Bulwer-Lytton
(probably the father rather than the son
), Edward FitzGerald
, and George Borrow
. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Friends, Associates | Anna Steele | Through her youngest sister AS
met many key figures of the day, including Irish Home-Rule leader Charles Stewart Parnell
(Katherine O'Shea's long-term lover and eventual husband), and Justin McCarthy
, novelist and Irish Home-Rule MP... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Matilda Hays | Woven into the novel is considerable commentary on the art, music, and literary productions of the day. Quotations are given from or allusions made to a wide range of authors including Tennyson
, Longfellow
(used... |
Literary responses | Isa Blagden | Henry James
dismissed IB
's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster. qtd. in West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1982. 446 |
Literary responses | Mary Elizabeth Braddon | Robert Buchanan
in the Athenæum speculated that the author was a woman, and called the poem a rhythmical paraphrase of the prose popularized by the Times Correspondents. Athenæum. J. Lection. 1739 (1861): 259 |
Literary responses | Katharine Tynan | KT
later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 Fallon, Ann Connerton. Katharine Tynan. Twayne, 1979. 37 qtd. in Boyd, Ernest. Ireland’s Literary Renaissance. Grant Richards, 1922. 103 |
Timeline
By 14 April 1855: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published his...
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By 14 April 1855
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
published his first book of poetry, Clytemnestra, The Earl's Return, The Artist, and Other Poems, as Owen Meredith.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1433 (14 April 1855): 426-7
April 1860: As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton...
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April 1860
As Owen Meredith, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
published his successful verse novel Lucile.
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By 24 August 1861: Writing under the pseudonyms Edward Trevor...
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By 24 August 1861
Writing under the pseudonyms Edward Trevor and Neville Temple, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
and Julian Fane
published the poem Tannhäuser, inspired by Wagner
's libretto.
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The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
1765 (24 August 1861): 240-1
1874: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton published another...
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1874
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
published another poetry collection, Fables in Song, in two volumes.
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1892: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton's blank verse...
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1892
Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
's blank verse allegory King Poppy: A Story Without End appeared posthumously.
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Texts
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl. Clytemnestra; The Earl’s Return; The Artist; and Other Poems. Chapman and Hall, 1855.
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl. Fables in Song. William Blackwood and Sons, 1874, 2 vols.
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl. King Poppy. Privately printed, 1875.
Lytton, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl. Lucile. Chapman and Hall, 1860.
Fane, Julian, and Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton. Tannhäuser. Chapman and Hall, 1861.