SENTIMENTALITY, under some one of its many forms, is ever ready to fasten on literatures that have become polished, and on social coteries in whose culture the intellectual mode has any part; for ...
The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing. The Honourable Henry Lytton Cobbold, of Knebworth ...
Having a writing contest named after you more than a century after your death would seem to be a great honor. Not so, if your name was Edward Bulwer-Lytton. His legacy stemmed not from some of his ...
On this day in 1860, readers first encountered some of the most unforgettable characters in fiction: Pip, Magwitch, Mrs Joe Gargery, Pumblechook, Estella, Orlick, Jaggers, Biddy and, of course, the ...
The Daily Mail reports with incredulity the news that a study has "found that people really are none the wiser about whether they're reading a Charles Dickens masterpiece or one of the works of Edward ...
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who died 150 years ago on Thursday, was a highly successful writer in his day. He was also a prominent politician, serving for a time as British colonial secretary. Moreover, his ...
THE future, as a literary device, was invented in the 19th century. Works of fiction purporting to describe the shape of things to come proliferated in the late 1800's, more or less keeping pace with ...
One generation’s master is the next generation’s hack. One generation’s classic is the next’s punch-line. Witness the case of Edward George Earle Bulwer, Baron Lytton of Knebworth–or, as he became ...
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