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...
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
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...
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
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...
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Florence Dixie
Back in Scotland the summer she was fourteen, FD
rewrote The Doom of Cain and submitted it to the editor of a renowned magazine hailing from Edinburgh.
Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press, 1903.
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The next year, when she was fifteen,...
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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...
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Constance Lytton
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.
Lytton, Constance. Letters of Constance Lytton. Editor Balfour, Elizabeth Edith, Countess of, Heinemann, 1925.
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Matilda Betham-Edwards
MBE
selected and introduced the Poems of Owen Meredith (the Earl of Lytton), in the year preceding Lytton's death.
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.
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Rosina Bulwer Lytton Baroness Lytton
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.
Devey, Louisa. Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton. Second, Swan Sonnenschein, Lowery, 1887, http://U. of Toronto.