Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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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
The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest was a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San José State University in San Jose, California until 2025. Entrants were in
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
…than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", "the great unwashed", and the opening phrase (incipit) "It was a dark and stormy night". The sardonic Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, held annually from 1982 to 2024, claimed to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels". Bulwer was born on 25 May 1803 to General…
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