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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

  

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Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Pelham, or The Adventures of a Gentleman

Elizabeth Barrett to Lady Margaret Cocks, 30 August 1832: 'As soon as breakfast is over, I read a chapter from the Hebrew Bible [...] and then I hear my brothers read Greek; at two we are so patriarchal as to dine: and afterwards I go out upon a donkey [...] & read Pelham, & do many idle things'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : novels including The Disowned

Elizabeth Barrett to Julia Martin, 14 December 1832: 'I have been reading Bulwer's novels & Mrs Trollope's libels, & Dr Parr's works [...] [Mrs Trollope] has neither the delicacy nor the candour which constitute true nobility of mind [...] Bulwer has quite delighted me: he has all the dramatic talent which Scott has: & all the passion which Scott has not -- and he appears to me to be besides a far profounder discriminator of character. There are some very fine things in his Denounced [sic].'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Zanoni

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 17 March 1842: 'In regard to Zanoni, I think with you that there is much in it, one wd yearn to see cast out of it, in reverence to the unity of the whole [goes on to comment on text in further detail]'.

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Eva; the Ill-omened Marriage, and Other Tales and Poems (extracts)

Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 13 July 1842: 'Sir L. Bulwer has just published a set of sing-songs -- I read two, or one, in a Review -- & thought them abominable.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Last of the Barons (extract)

Robert Browning to Alfred Domett, 5 March 1843: 'Here we are sound asleep. Bulwer's new Novel, "The Last of the Barons," is to be, he says, the last of Bulwer's -- and seems a poor affair, if one may judge by the single extract I have seen.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Serial / periodical

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Last of the Barons

Elizabeth Barrett to Mary Russell Mitford, 21 March 1843: 'Notwithstanding my admiration of Bulwer, I had the hardest & most laborious work passing through his "Last of the Barons" (May it be the last of his romances wrought after such a fashion!) [...] There are threads of golden beauty [...] the sub-stuff being strong, & stiff, & useful -- very good stout history [...] but as for romance & poetic Art, the Goddess of useful knowledge has set her face against them.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Elizabeth Barrett      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Alice, or The Mysteries

Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Ernest Maltravers

Robert Browning to Elizabeth Barrett, letter postmarked 15 August 1845: 'I have read those novels [i.e. Alice, and Ernest Maltravers, mentioned by Barrett in letter postmarked 13 August] -- but I must keep that word of words, "genius" -- for something different -- "talent" will do here surely.'

Century: 1800-1849     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : The Caxtons. A Family Picture

Elizabeth Barrett Browning to Arabella Moulton-Barrett, 12 March 1850: 'Robert is reading "the Caxtons" & is much pleased with the book. [italics]I[end italics] am reading "Shirley", and am interested -- only it does not seem to me equally suggestive of power (so far) with Jane Eyre.'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Robert Browning      Print: Book

  

Edward George Bulwer-Lytton : Harold

'Harold'

Century: 1850-1899     Reader/Listener/Group: Sarah Good      Print: Book

  

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