The Life, Letters and Literary Remains of Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton
Volume 1
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- Author: Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton
- Date Published: February 2014
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- isbn: 9781108069564
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One of the most popular writers of his age, outsold only by Dickens, Edward George Bulwer Lytton (1803–73), first Baron Lytton, is notable for coining the phrases 'the great unwashed' and 'the pen is mightier than the sword', although his work is largely forgotten today. G. K. Chesterton's appraisal was that 'you could not have the Victorian Age without him'. Lytton requested that his son Edward Robert (1831–91), first Earl of Lytton, complete his autobiography. Complemented by letters and previously unpublished material - the better to flesh out the story of a prolific literary life - it appeared in two volumes in 1883. In his preface, Edward Robert writes that his main purpose is 'to illustrate my father's works by his life, and his life by his works'. Volume 1 contains the original autobiography, along with letters and selected writings that provide insights into Lytton's first twenty-two years.
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- Date Published: February 2014
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781108069564
- length: 400 pages
- dimensions: 217 x 140 x 23 mm
- weight: 0.5kg
- contains: 12 b/w illus.
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Table of Contents
Preface
Part I. Childhood:
1. The Bulwers
2. Maternal grandfather and grandmother
3. The child of parted parents
4. Knebworth
5. The Lyttons
6. First suitors
7. The deserted house
8. Elizabeth Lytton
9. Last suitors
10. Miss Lytton marries Colonel Bulwer
11. Birth of William, Henry, and Edward Bulwer
12. Elizabeth's married life
13. General Bulwer
14. The old scholar
15. The first temptation
16. Practical ethics
17. Reminiscences of childhood
18. The scholar's death
19. The arrival of the books
20. The child's intercourse with them
21. The departure of the books
Part II. School:
1. First experiences of school life
2. Schoolmaster and schoolboy
3. Last experiences of school life
4. Life at Ealing
5. First essays in authorship
6. Letters to a fellow-pupil
7. Letters from elder friends
8. First love
9. Love story continued
10. Life at St Lawrence
11. The manuscript of Lionel Hastings
12. Lionel Hastings (cont.)
13. Lionel Hastings (cont.)
14. Lionel Hastings (cont.)
15. Lionel Hastings (cont.)
16. Lionel Hastings (cont.)
Part III. College:
1. Life at Cambridge
2. End of college life
3. Union debates and college contemporaries
4. Non-academical studies
5. Literary works at Cambridge
6. History of the British public
Part IV. Wanderjahr:
1. The grave of a dream
2. The tale of a dreamer
3. Windermere
4. An adventure
5. Visit to Mr Owen
6. An adventure in the Highlands
7. Scarborough
8. Life with the gipsies
9. How it ended
10. Lady Caroline Lamb
11. Lady Caroline Lamb (cont.)
12. De Lindsay
13. First connection with a duel
14. Social relations with the Faubourg St-Germain.
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