Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, GCMG, PC was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 18
Portrait of Edward Bulwer-Lytton by Henry William Pickersgill, 1831
Edward Bulwer-Lytton. His Harold: The Last of the Saxon Kings (1848) was the source for Verdi's opera Aroldo.
Bulwer-Lytton in later life
Caricature by "Ape" published in Vanity Fair in 1870
Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration. By way of framing device, the author says: "... It so chanced that some years ago, in my younger days, whether o