Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, first Earl Lytton

She took the title from a poem by Nora Perry called Norine, and aimed to equal the success of Lucile (a drama by Edward Bulwer Lytton which was later, after the appearance of Maurine...

KT later felt this was a very-much derived little volume. Her critics have observed the influence on it of the Pre-Raphaelite poets, especially Christina and Dante Gabriel Rossetti .William Rossetti ...

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...

It had been written in 1866 but was not published for almost fifteen years (perhaps for fear of being sued for libel). One of her other life-writing texts was called Nemesis. She claimed that...

She always claimed, as she does here, that A Blighted Life had never been written for publication. She wrote this pamphlet in an effort to smooth relations with her son (who controlled her allowance, and...

Devey followed this in 1887 with a second publication, Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton, with numerous extracts from her MS. autobiography and other original documents, published in vindication of her memory. The title-page bore...

Following the death of her estranged husband in January 1873, the son of Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton , raised her living allowance by £200 per annum.

She gave birth to her second child, Edward Robert Bulwer , on 8 November 1831. He became a diplomat and, as Viceroy of India from 1876 to 1880, a stage-manager of imperial pomp when...

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. However...

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...

Lady CL was born in Vienna, where her father was then at the British embassy.

CL wrote about her father in response to a request from Albert Broadbent , who was to publish a Treasury of the late Lord Lytton's poetry.

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...

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...

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 .