Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton (1803-73)

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A Bulwer-Lytton Chronology

1803
25 May, birth of Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, youngest of three sons
1807
Death of his father, General William Earle Bulwer.
1819-1821
Studies under Rev. Charles Wallington at Ealing.
1820
Ismael.
1822
Fellow-commoner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.
1823
Delmour.
1824-1826
Travels in England and abroad.
1825
July, wins the Chancellor's medal for his poem "Sculpture."
1826
Weeds and Wildflowers.
1827
30 August, marries Rosina Doyle Wheeler. Falkland.
1828
Pelham; The Disowned.
1829
Devereux.
1830
Paul Clifford.
1831-1832
Editor of the New Monthly Magazine.
1831-1841
Member of Parliament for St. Ives and Lincoln.
1832
Eugene Aram.
1833
Godolphin and England and the English. Breakdown of health, journey to Italy, and first separation from his wife.
1834
The Last Days of Pompeii; Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister. Meets actor-manager W. C. Macready.
1835
Rienzi.
1836
Final separation from his wife. The Duchess de la Valliere; Ernest Maltravers.
1838
The Lady of Lyons; Alice.
1839
The Sea Captain; Richelieu.
1840
Money.
1841
Retires from Parliament. Night and Morning.
1842
Zanoni.
1843
The Last of the Barons.
1846
Lucretia.
1847
A Word to the Public as a defense of his crime fiction.
1848
Harold; King Arthur. Daughter Emily dies.
1849
The Caxtons.
1851
Joins Conservative party. Not So Bad as We Seem [drama]
1852-1866
Returns to Parliament as conservative member for Hertford.
1853
My Novel.
1858
What Will He Do with It?
1858-1859
Secretary of state for the colonies in Lord Derby's conservative administration.
1862
A Strange Story.
1863
Caxtoniana.
1866
Raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton. The Lost Tales of Miletus.
1869
Walpole; The Odes and Epodes of Horace. Receives the order of St. Michael and St. George.
1871
The Coming Race.
1873
Kenelm Chillingly. 18 January, dies at Torquay. The Parisians.
1876
Pausanias the Spartan.

(This extract is taken from James L. Campbell, Sr., Edward Bulwer-Lytton [Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986])

Last updated: 15 March 2004.

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