Edward Bulwer Lytton's Biography(Books)(Photos)

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Pc (1803–1873), was an English politician, poet,

the Colonies, thus serving alongside his old friend
Disraeli. In the House of Lords he was comparatively

playwright, and prolific novelist. He was immensely popular
with the reading public and turned out a stream of

inactive. He took a proprietary interest in the development
of the Crown Colony of British Columbia and wrote with great

bestselling novels which made him a considerable fortune.
But, like many authors of the period, his style now seems

passion to the Royal Engineers upon assigning them their
duties there. The former HBC Fort Dallas at Camchin, the

florid and embellished[citation needed] to modern tastes. He
coined the phrases, "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the

almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and
the infamous opening line, "It was a dark and stormy

British Columbia.

night."

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer is son of Gen. William
Bulwer and Elizabeth Lytton, he assumed the name

Novels

Bulwer-Lytton in 1843 when he inherited the Lytton estate
"Knebworth." He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in

* Falkland (1827)
* Pelham: or The Adventures of a Gentleman (1828)

1866. His varied and highly derivative novels won wide
popularity. Many of his early novels of manners-Falkland

* The Disowned (1829)
* Devereux (1829)

(1827), Paul Clifford (1830), and Eugene Aram (1832)-reflect
the influence of his friend William Godwin. Bulwer-Lytton,

* Paul Clifford (1830)
* Eugene Aram (1832)

however, is best remembered for his extremely
well-researched historical novels, particularly The Last

* Godolphin (1833)
* Falkland (1834)

Days of Pompeii (1834) and Rienzi (1835). in 1849, with The
Caxtons, he began a series of humorous domestic novels,

* The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)
* Rienzi, the last of the Roman tribunes (1835)

which had recently become the vogue. His utopian novel, The
Coming Race, prefigured the works of Wells and Huxley. A

* The Student (1835)
* Ernest Maltravers (1837)

member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841, Bulwer-Lytton was a
reformer, but in 1852 he returned to Parliament as a

* Alice (1838)
* Night and Morning (1841)

Conservative. In 1858 he was appointed colonial secretary.
He was also a successful dramatist. His plays include The

* Zanoni (1842)
* The Last of the Barons (1843)

Lady of Lyons (1838), richelieu (1839), and Money (1840).

* Lucretia (1846)
* Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1848)

* The Caxtons: A Family Picture (1849)
* My Novel, or Varieties in English Life (1853)

Bulwer-Lytton began his career as a follower of Jeremy
Bentham. In 1831 he was elected member for St Ives in

* The Haunted and the Haunters or The House and the
Brain (1857)

Cornwall, after which he was returned for Lincoln in 1832,
and sat in Parliament for that city for nine years. He spoke

* What Will He Do With It? (1858)
* A Strange Story (1862)

in favour of the Reform Bill, and took the leading part in
securing the reduction, after vainly essaying the repeal, of

* The Coming Race or Vril: The Power of the Coming Race
(1871)

the newspaper stamp duties. His influence was perhaps most
keenly felt when, on the Whigs’ dismissal from office in

* Kennelm Chillingly (1873)
* The Parisiens (1873 unfinished)

1834, he issued a pamphlet entitled A Letter to a Late
Cabinet Minister on the Crisis. Lord Melbourne, then Prime

Minister, offered him a lordship of the admiralty, which he
declined as likely to interfere with his activity as an

* Ismael (1820)

author.

* The New Timon (1846) (an attack on Tennyson published
anonymously)

In 1841, he left Parliament and didn't return to politics
until 1852; this time, having differed from the policy of

* King Arthur (1848-9)

Lord John Russell over the Corn Laws, he stood for
Hertfordshire as a Conservative. Lord Lytton held that seat

until 1866, when he was raised to the peerage as Baron
Lytton of Knebworth in the County of Hertford. In 1858 he

* The Lady of Lyons (1838)
* Richelieu (1839)