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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton
Birth: 5-25-1803
Death: 1-18-1873
Nickname: Bulwer
Biography
Mentioned in 18410000JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1. "first Baron Lytton (1803–1873), writer and politician, was born on 25 May 1803 at 31 Baker Street, London, the third and youngest son of Colonel (later General) William Earle Bulwer (1757–1807) of Heydon and Wood Dalling, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton (1773–1843) of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. His elder brothers were William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877), who inherited the Bulwer family estates in north Norfolk, and (William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer (1801–1872), who was knighted in 1848 and raised to the peerage as Baron Dalling and Bulwer in 1871. His daunting array of names is a source of frequent confusion. His forenames were Edward George Earle Lytton (the last of them being his mother's maiden name). For the first forty years of his life his surname was Bulwer though out of respect for his mother's family, to whose estates he was heir, he often styled himself Edward Lytton Bulwer. When his mother died in 1843 and he came into his inheritance, he changed his surname by royal licence to Bulwer Lytton (without a hyphen, though others sometimes supplied one), thus becoming Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton." "an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed",[1] "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the infamous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".[2]"
Letter References
Letter from Frances Adeline Seward to William Henry Seward, August 4, 1866
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, May 20, 1859
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, December 9, 1849
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, April 5, 1832
Letter from Harriet Morgan Pitney to Frances Miller Seward, February 20, 1850
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to Lazette Miller Worden, July 24, 1842
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, June 15, 1829
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, December 1, 1834
Letter from William Henry Seward to Frances Miller Seward, September 1833
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, June 25, 1833
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, June 13, 1833
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, November 18, 1832
Letter from Frances Miller Seward to William Henry Seward, August 26, 1831
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Biography:
Mentioned in 18410000JohnCarlin_WHS_FMS1.
"first Baron Lytton (1803–1873), writer and politician, was born on 25 May 1803 at 31 Baker Street, London, the third and youngest son of Colonel (later General) William Earle Bulwer (1757–1807) of Heydon and Wood Dalling, Norfolk, and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton (1773–1843) of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. His elder brothers were William Earle Lytton Bulwer (1799–1877), who inherited the Bulwer family estates in north Norfolk, and (William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer (1801–1872), who was knighted in 1848 and raised to the peerage as Baron Dalling and Bulwer in 1871. His daunting array of names is a source of frequent confusion. His forenames were Edward George Earle Lytton (the last of them being his mother's maiden name). For the first forty years of his life his surname was Bulwer though out of respect for his mother's family, to whose estates he was heir, he often styled himself Edward Lytton Bulwer. When his mother died in 1843 and he came into his inheritance, he changed his surname by royal licence to Bulwer Lytton (without a hyphen, though others sometimes supplied one), thus becoming Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer Lytton."
"an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed",[1] "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the infamous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".[2]"
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http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17314?docPos=1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton
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http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17314?docPos=1; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton