The World and His Wife: A true story told by two unreliable narrators

by Stephen Wyatt

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In 1828, the beautiful Rosina Wheeler married one of Victorian England's most successful and prolific writers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton. What followed shocked and entertained the public for over thirty years. After their marriage broke down, Rosina refused to be silenced. She pursued her husband with a single-minded and very public campaign to prove she was in the right. She even interrupted her husband's election campaign to denounce him to the assembled voters. Edward responded by threatening to have her committed to a lunatic asylum. But that was only the beginning. The novel draws freely on Edward and Rosina's own words. Both have a convincing story to tell - except that they disagree about everything.
  • ISBN13 9781912881369
  • Publish Date 28 June 2019
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 3 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Book Guild Publishing Ltd
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 274
  • Language English