A Blighted Life
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A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton
chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
and her subsequent release a few weeks later.
Rosina Bulwer Lytton
Rosina Bulwer Lytton wrote and published fourteen novels, a volume of essays and a volume of letters. Her husband was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a novelist and politician...
chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC , was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling dime-novels which earned him a considerable fortune...
and her subsequent release a few weeks later.
Further reading
- Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. A Blighted Life. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1994. ISBN 1-85506-248-8 (Originally published in 1880 by The London Publishing Office).
- Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. Cheveley. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005.
- Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. Shells in the Sands of Time. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1995. ISBN 1-85506-386-7
- Bulwer Lytton, Edward. Letters of the late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to his wife: With extracts from her MSS. "Autobiography" and other documents. Ed. Louisa Devey. New York: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-08884-8
- Cobbold of Knebworth, David Lytton Cobbold. A Blighted Marriage. Knebworth: The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999. ISBN 0-9537116-1-7
- Miles, Patricia and Jill Williams. An Uncommon Criminal. Knebworth: Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999.
- Mulvey-Roberts, Marie and Steve Carpenter, Eds. The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. ISBN 1-85196-803-2