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, to poetry, plays, biographies and extensive political commentaries and journalism. A dandy to rival Disraeli, Bulwer Lytton lived life in London. at Knebworth, his country house, or more frequently abroad, with hectic intensity. Arousing strong emotions in public, his private life was turbulent in the extreme; his acrimonious and bitter divorce from his wife Rosina providing one of the most public and prolonged of Victorian marriage disputes. Leslie Mitchell's biography, written to mark the two hundredth anniversary of Bulwer Lytton's birth, is an account of a singular and very remarkable Victorian.
- ISBN10 6612024720
- ISBN13 9786612024726
- Publish Date 1 May 2003
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 20 April 2011
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Continuum International Publishing Group
- Format eBook
- Pages 320
- Language English