British author Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873) wrote Falkland, Pelham, and Eugene Aram. These novels won instant success and made him a wealthy man. As a result, he entered Parliament as a liberal member representing St. Ives, Huntingdonshire. Bulwer-Ly...
In his own day, Bulwer's position among the most unquestionably popular and the most critically esteemed novelists seemed firmly established. As with so many Victorian writers, though, his fortunes declined drastically after his death, and not until fair...
In his own lifetime, Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, better known by his pseudonym Owen Meredith, was much more highly regarded as a poet than he is today. His lyrics were praised by discriminating critics, and he was especially well received in America, wh...
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NIMROD: ERNEST SHACKLETON AND THE EXTRAORDINARY STORY OF THE 1907-09 BRITISH ANTARCTIC EXPEDITION. By BEAU RIFFENBURGH. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2004. ISBN 0-7475-7254-2. xxiv + 358 p., maps, b & w illus., notes, bib., index. Hardbound. [pounds sterling]17.99. In recent years the name Sir...
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