Bulwer-Lytton

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English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)

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Bulwer-Lytton in later life The death of Bulwer-Lytton's mother in 1843 greatly saddened him. Source: Internet

Johnston took the -vril suffix from Bulwer-Lytton 's then-popular novel, The Coming Race (1870), whose plot revolves around a superior race of people, the Vril-ya, who derive their powers from an electromagnetic substance named "Vril". Source: Internet

Such nuggets of gold must be used judiciously and sparingly, lest the writer stray into florid Bulwer-Lytton territory (you know, the “it was a dark and stormy night” guy). Source: Internet

The young Villiers was to have a long parliamentary career, while Cockburn became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1859.) Bulwer-Lytton reached the height of his popularity with the publication of Godolphin (1833). Source: Internet

Bulwer-Lytton had long suffered with a disease of the ear and for the last two or three years of his life he lived in Torquay nursing his health. Source: Internet

Magazines In 1831 Bulwer-Lytton became the editor of the New Monthly but he resigned the following year. Source: Internet

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