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.
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.
81
Dixie, Florence, and William Stewart Ross. The Story of Ijain. Leadenhall Press.
181-2
Textual Production
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.
153
The next year, when she was fifteen,...
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.
81
as a kindred spirit...
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
He detected the influence of...
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
, 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, p. xix - xxxiii.
xxviii
Literary responses
Isa Blagden
Henry James
dismissed IB
's novels as the inevitable nice novel or two of the wandering English spinster.
West, Rebecca. Harriet Hume. Lester and Orpen Dennys.
446
IB
's texts have received scant critical attention, and the little which has been published frequently...
Textual Production
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.