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Bulwer-Lytton

noun
1.
English writer of historical romances (1803-1873).  Synonyms: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, First Baron Lytton, Lytton.



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"Bulwer-lytton" Quotes from Famous Books



... This is Bulwer-Lytton's house—a fine old English place hired this year by Lady Strafford, whom your mother is visiting for a fortnight or more, and they let me come along, too. They have given me the big library, as good a room as I want—with as bad pens as they can ...
— The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II • Burton J. Hendrick
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... soul will not clog itself with a cowardly thought or a cowardly watchword. Cardinal Richelieu in Bulwer-Lytton's play declares: ...
— It Can Be Done - Poems of Inspiration • Joseph Morris
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... sarcastic and the sentimental temper must always be hostile to each other; between romance and ridicule the antipathy is fundamental; and although one regrets that he ever wrote Rebecca and Rowena, the melodramatic novels of Bulwer-Lytton were fair enough game for the parodist. However, it is certain that in his earlier writings Thackeray did much to laugh away the novel of mediaeval chivalry; and while we think he often carried his irreverent jocosity much too far, since after all chivalry is better than ...
— Studies in Literature and History • Sir Alfred Comyn Lyall
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... a straw—such is Dr. Fenwick, hero of Bulwer-Lytton's "Strange Story" when he determines to lend himself to alleged "magic" in the hope of saving his suffering wife from the physical dangers which have succeeded her mental disease. The proposition has been made to him by Margrave, a wanderer in ...
— The Lock and Key Library • Julian Hawthorne, Ed.
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