Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, first Baron Lytton
This was among his most controversial novels; W. Fraser Rae
later praised it in his attack on Mary Elizabeth Braddon
's sensation fiction, and George Sala
cited it as a laudable antecedent in her defence.
Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, pp. 180 -4.
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Matthew, Henry Colin Gray, Brian Harrison, and Lawrence Goldman, editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.
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Reception
Mary Elizabeth Braddon
W. Fraser Rae
, in the North British Review, anonymously pronounced that MEB
had temporarily succeeded in making the literature of the Kitchen the favourite reading of the Drawing room.
Rae, W. Fraser. “Sensation Novelists: Miss Braddon”. North British Review, pp. 180 -4.
204
Wolff, Robert Lee. Sensational Victorian. Garland, 1979.