Bulwer Lytton : the rise and fall of a Victorian man of letters / Leslie Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, L. G. (Leslie George), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Authors, English--19th century--Biography.

Authors, English.

Cabinet officers--Great Britain--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Journalists--Great Britain--Biography.

Journalists.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron, 1803-1873.

Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Place of Publication:

London, [England] ; New York, New York : Hambledon and London, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After a prolific life as an author with a European reputation, outselling Dickens, Edward Bulwer Lytton was ennobled and, on his death, buried in Westminster Abbey. Since the First World War, however, his literary reputation has sunk and he is now little read. Bulwer Lytton is the first modern biography of an extraordinary man whose literary output was prodigious. It ranged from novels, such as The Last Days of Pompeii, and poetry to plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, he lived life in London, at Knebworth, his country house, or mo

Contents:

Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Upbringing of a Puppy; 2 Rosina; 3 'The Misfortune of My Life'; 4 Robert and Emily; 5 Society; 6 A Writer and the Public; 7 Ghosts and Artists; 8 Europe; 9 Radical; 10 Tory; 11 Cabinet Minister; 12 Prophet; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-282-02472-8

9786612024726

0-8264-2166-0

OCLC:

319696180