The Last Days of Pompeii
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The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton ha
First edition title page
The Last Day of Pompeii, Karl Bryullov
Nydia, The Blind Girl of Pompeii by Emanuel Gottlieb Leutze (1840)
Nydia, the Blind Flower Girl by Randolph Rogers
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
The Last Days of Pompeii
…The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan…
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