Rosina Bulwer-Lytton
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Rosina Bulwer-Lytton (born Rosina Doyle Wheeler , born November 4, 1802 in Ballywire , Ireland , † March 12, 1882 in Upper Sydenham , London ) was an English novelist and feminist.
Life
She was the daughter of the writer and advocate of political rights for women Anna Doyle Wheeler and Francis Massey Wheeler from Limerick and the wife of the writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton , whom she referred to in her autobiography Blighted Life (1866) as "her trampler and her tyrant " designated. Since she openly opposed her husband, she was placed in a mental hospital by him during his election campaign in 1858; the marriage was later divorced. She wrote extremely successful novels in which she defended herself against her forced role as a Victorian wife and made fun of important male contemporaries, especially her husband.
She was the mother of Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton (June 17, 1828 - April 29, 1848) and of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (November 8, 1831 - November 24, 1891), Viceroy of British India 1876-1880.
Works
Novels
- Cheveley; or, The Man of Honor (1839)
- The Budget of the Bubble Family (1840)
- Bianca Cappello: An Historical Romance (1842)
- The Peer's Daughters (1849)
- Miriam Sedley or The Tares and the Wheat: A Tale of Real Life . - 1850 (autobiographical novel)
- The School for Husbands; or, Molière's Life and Times (1851)
- Behind the Scenes (1854)
- The World and his Wife; or a Person of Consequence, a Photographic Novel . - London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858
- Very Successful (1859)
- Clumber Chase (1871, published under the pen name Hon. George Scott )
Essays
- Shells from the Sands of Time . Bickers and Son, London 1876; New edition: Thoemmes Press, Bristol 1995, ISBN 1-85506-386-7 .
Autobiography
- A Blighted Life , 1866, published posthumously 1880; New edition: Thoemmes Press, Bristol 1994, ISBN 1-85506-248-8 .
Letters
- The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton . - 3 volumes. Edited by Marie Mulvey-Roberts and Steve Carpenter. Pickering & Chatto, London 2007, ISBN 1-85196-803-2 .
literature
- Claus Baumgart: A contribution to the “Chronique scandaleuse” of the British aristocracy from the pen of Karl Marx - “The Imprisonment of Lady Bulwer-Lytton. First Article " . In: Marx-Engels-Forschungsberichte 5. Leipzig 1987, pp. 112–121.
- David Lytton Cobbold, 2nd Baron Cobbold of Knebworth: A Blighted Marriage: The life of Rosina Bulwer Lytton: Irish beauty, satirist and tormented Victorian wife, 1802-1882 . The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bulwer-Lytton, Rosina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wheeler, Rosina Doyle (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English novelist and feminist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 4, 1802 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ballywire , Ireland |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 12, 1882 |
| Place of death | Upper Sydenham , London |