Male : Novelist & playwright. Married an Irish girl, Rosina Doyle Wheeler, in 1827. They parted in 1836 but she persecuted him the rest of his life. Buried in Westminster Abbey

Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1803 Date of Death : 1873 Age : 70

Other Work : Entered Parl in 1831 as MP for St Ives, and later Lincoln. Colonial Sec 1858

Education : Trinity Hall, Cambridge

1820-1830
Ismael : An Oriental Tale & Other Poems (1820 Hatchard)
Delmour, or the Tale of a Sylphid & Other Poems (1823 Carpenter)
Sculpture (Cambridge Prize Poem) (1825 Cambridge)
Weeds and Wild Flowers (Poems, etc) (1825 PP Paris) - By E G L B
O'Neill, or the Rebel (poem) (1827 Colburn)
Falkland (1827 Colburn) - Anon
Pelham : or the Adventures of a Gentleman (1828 Colburn) - 3 vols
Devereaux : A Tale (1829 Colburn) - 3 vols. Anon
The Disowned (1829 Colburn) - 4 vols (1829 Harper NY) - 2 vols. Anon
Paul Clifford (1830 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols. Anon

1831-1840
Eugene Aram : A Tale (1832 Colburn & Bentley) - 3 vols (1832 Harper, NY - 2 vols) - Anon
The Siamese Twins : A Satirical Tale of the Times (1831 Colburn & Bentley)
Godolphin (1833 Bentley) - 3 vols
England the English (1833 Bentley) - 2 vols
Asmodius at Large (1833 Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phila) - Anon
A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Present Crisis (1834 Saunders & Otley)
France, Social, Literary, Political (1834 Bentley, London 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
The Last Days of Pompeii (1834 Bentley) - 3 vols. Anon
[Filmed in 1935]
The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834 Saunders & Otley)
The Student : A Series of Papers (1835 New Monthly) - 2 vols
Rienzi, the Last of the Tribunes (1835 S & O) - 3 vols
The Duchess of de la Valliere (1836 S & O) - drama
The Sea-Captain, or the Birthright (1837)
Athens : its Rise and Fall (1837 S & O) - 2 vols
Ernest Maltravers (1837 Saunders & Otlet) - 3 vols
Alice or the Mysteries (1838 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols (1838 Harper NY) - 2 vols. Anon
Leila, or the Siege of Granada (1838 Longman)
Calderon the Courtier : A Tale (1838 Carey, Lea & Blanchard, Phila)
The Lady of Lyons; or Love and Pride (1838 S & O) (1838 Harper NY) - drama
Richelieu, or The Conspiracy (1839 S & O) - drama
The Sea Captain, or The Birthright (1839 S & O) - drama
Money : A Comedy in Five Acts (1840 S & O) - drama

1841-1850
Night and Morning (1841 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols (1841 Harper NY) - 2 vols. Anon
The Dramatic Works, now First Collected (1841 Saunders & Otley)
Zanoni (1842 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
Eva, the Ill-Omened Marriage & Other Tales & Poems (1842 Saunders & Otley)
The Last of the Barons (1843 Saunders & Otley) - 3 vols
Poems and Ballads (from the German of Schiller) (1844)
Confessions of a Water-Patient (1845 Colburn)
The Crisis : A Satire of the Day (1845 Colburn)
The New Timon : A Romance of London (1845 Colburn) - poem
Lucretia or, The Children of Night (1846 S & O) - 3 vols
A Word to the Public (1847 Colburn)
Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848 Bentley) - 3 vols
King Arthur : An Epic Poem (1849 Colburn) (1849 Bentley - 2 vols)
The Caxtons : A Family Picture (1849 Blackwood) - 3 vols

1851-1860
Letters to John Bull Esq (1851 Chapman & Hall)
Not So Bad as We Seem, or Many Sides to a Character (1851 Chapman & Hall) - drama
My Novel, or Varieties in English Life (1851-2 Tauchnitz) - 4 vols (1853 Blackwood) - By Pisistratus Caxton
Outlines of the Early History of the East : A Lecture (1852 Warren)
The Poetical & Dramatic Works (1852-4 Chapman & Hall) - 5 vols
Dramas and Poems (1857 Whittemore, Boston)
What will He Do with It ? (1857-8 Tauchnitz) - 4 vols (1859 Blackwood) - By Pisistratus Caxton
St Stephen's : A Poem (1860 Blackwood) - Anon

1861-1870
A Strange Story (1861-2 Tauchnitz) - 2 vols 1882 Sampson Low)
Caxtoniana : Essays on Life, Literature & Manners (1863 Blackwood) - 2 vols
The Boatman (poem) (1864 Blackwood) - By Pisistratus Caxton
The Lost Tales of Miletus (1865 PP) - 12 copies (1866 Murray) - poems
The Rightful Heir (1868 Murray) - Drama
Miscellaneous Prose Works (1868 Bentley) - 3 vols
Walpole, or Every Man has His Price : A Comedy in Rhyme (1869 Blackwood)
(Trans) Odes and Epodes of Horace (1869)

1871-1880
The Coming Race (1871 Blackwood) - Anon
Kenelm Chillingly, his Adventures & Opinions (1873 Blackwood) - 3 vols. Anon
The Parisians (1873 Blackwood) - 4 vols
Speeches and Other Political Writings (1874 Blackwood) - 2 vols
Pamphlets and Sketches (1875 Routledge)
Quarterly Essays 1836-7 (1875 Routledge)
Novels (1875 Routledge - Knebworth edition) - 27 vols
Pausanias the Spartan (1876 Routledge) - unfinished. edited by his son
Collected Works (1877 Routledge) - 25 vols

After 1881
The Life, Letters and Literary Remains (1883 Kegan Paul) - Edited by his son
Letters of the Late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to His Wife (1884 Swan Sonnenschein)
Beautiful thoughts (1900 Potts, US)
The Haunted and the Haunters (1925 Simpkin Marshall)
The Last Days of Pompeii (1956 Ltd Eds Club, NY) - 1500 signed by Kurt Craemer

READING
T H S Escott : Edward Bulwer, First Baron Lytton of Knebworth (1910 Routledge)
[Knebworth was the family home in Hertfordshire, originally built by Sir Robert Lytton]
The Earl of Lytton : The Life of Edward Bulwer, First Lord Lytton by His Grandson
(1913 Macmillan) - 2 vols
C Nelson Stewart : Bulwer Lytton as Occultist (1927 Theosophical Publishing Ltd)
The Earl of Lytton : Bulwer Lytton (1948 Home & Van Thal)
Leslie Mitchell : Bulwer Lytton - The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters
(2003 Hambledon £19.95)