Definition of Bulwer-Lytton

1. Noun. English writer of historical romances (1803-1873).


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Literary usage of Bulwer-Lytton

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Representative British Dramas, Victorian and Modern by Montrose Jonas Moses (1918)
"EDWARD Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) Bulwer-Lytton represents all that is false, shallow, and insincere in the history "f the early nineteenth century English ..."

2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner (1897)
"Edward Robert Bulwer, Earl of [«Owen Meredith»1, the only son of Edward Bulwer-Lytton ; born in London, Nov. ..."

3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1908)
"Bulwer-Lytton collected many of Blanchard's prose essays in 1846 under the title ... [Bulwer-Lytton contributed a memoir of Blanchard to his edition of the ..."

4. The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens, Gilbert Ashville Pierce (1894)
"SIR EDWARD BULWER LYTTON 3, HANOVER TERRACE, REGENT'S PARE, Sunday, ... MY DEAR BULWER LYTTON, — My story will finish in th first week in August. ..."

5. Representative English Plays: From the Middle Ages to the End of the by John Strong Perry Tatlock, Robert Grant Martin (1916)
"Bulwer-Lytton was rather a popular than a great writer, a man of much talent but not of genius ... Bulwer-Lytton was the only man, except perhaps Goldsmith, ..."

6. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"LORD LYTTON (SIR EDWARD Bulwer-Lytton) MACREADY AND THE ENGLISH STAGE [Speech of Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton at a public dinner given to William C. ..."

7. The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 by Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1906)
"EDWARD ROBERT BULWER LYTTON, EARL OF LYTTON 7P4- A Night in Italy ^ That first kiss'd ours, albeit they kiss no more: 1831-1891 C WEET are the rosy memories ..."

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