Author:Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

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Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer (1803–1873)

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. Lord Lytton was a florid, popular writer of his day. He also wrote under the pen name Pisistratus Caxton. — Excerpted from Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Was also known by the names Edward Bulwer-Lytton; Lord Lytton; Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton; Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton; Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton, Bart.; and the pseudonym "Owen Meredith."

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer

Works

• O'Neill (1827, anonymous)
• Falkland (1827, anonymous) [1]
• Pelham: or, Adventures of a Gentleman (1828, anonymous) [2]
• The Disowned (1829, anonymous) [3]
• Devereux (1829, anonymous) [4]
• Paul Clifford (1830, as "E.B.L.") [5]
• Eugene Aram (1832, anonymous) [6]
• Asmodeus at Large (1833, anonymous) [7]
• Godolphin: A Tale (1833, anonymous) [8]
• England and the English (1833, 2 editions)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1834, anonymous) [9]
• The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834, anonymous) [10]
• A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister on the Present Crisis (Mr. Bulwer; or, The Present Crisis) (1834) [11] (see also [12])
• The Student (in New Monthly Magazine, 1835)
• Rienzi: The Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835) [13]
• Athens: Its Rise and Fall; With Views of the Literature, Philosophy, and Social Life of the Athenian People (1837) Vo. I Vol. I Vol. II
• Ernest Maltravers: or, Eleusinia (1837, anonymous) [14]
• Alice; or, The Mysteries (1838, anonymous) [15]
• Calderon, the Courtier: A Tale (1838, anonymous) [16]
• Leila; or, The Siege of Granada (1838) [17]
• Night and Morning (1841, anonymous)
• Zanoni (1842, anonymous) [18]
• The Last of the Barons (1843) [19]
• Confession of a Water Patient (1845)
• The Crisis (1845, anonymous)
• The New Timon (1846, anonymous)
• Lucretia (1846, anonymous)
• A Word to the Public (1847, anonymous)
• Harold, the Last of the Saxon Kings (1848, anonymous) [20]
• The Caxtons: A Family Picture (in Blackood's Magazine, 1849) [21]
• Night and Morning (1851)
• Letter to John Bull, Esq. (1851)
• Outlines of the early history of the East (1852)
• "My Novel," by Pisistratus Caxton: or, Varieties in English Life (in Blackwood's Magazine, 1853) [22]
• Address to the Associated Societies of the University of Edinburgh (1854)
• Speech at the Leeds Mechanics' Institution (1854)
• Clytemnestra, The earl's return, The artist, and other poems (pseudonym Owen Meredith, 1855) [23]
• The Haunted and the Haunters: or, The House and the Brain (1857) [24]
• What Will He Do with It?: A Novel, (1858, pseudonym Pisistratus Caxton) [25]
• St. Stephen's (1860, anonymous)
• A Strange Story (1861, anonymous)
• Caxtoniana (1863) [26]
• The Lost Tales of Miletus (1866)
• Vril: The Power of the Coming Race; The New Utopia (in Blackwood's, 1871, anonymous) [27] [28]
• The Parisians (in Blackwood's, 1873) [29]
• Kenelm Chillingly: His Adventures and Opinions (1873, anonymous) [30]
• Pausanias, the Spartan: An Unfinished Historical Romance (1876, posthumous) [31]

Plays

• The Duchess de la Vallière (1836) [32]
• The Lady of Lyons; or, Love and Pride (1838) [33]
• Richelieu; or, The Conspiracy (1839, anonymous) [34]
• The Sea-captain; or, The Birthright (1839, anonymous) [35] (also The Rightful Heir, 1868, anonymous)
• Money: A Comedy (1840, anonymous) [36]
• Not So Bad as We Seem; or, Many Sides to a Character (1851) [37]
• Walpole (1869)

Poetry

• Ismael: An Oriental Tale, with Other Poems (1820)
• Delmour; or, A Tale of a Sylphid, and Other Poems (1823, anonymous)
• Sculpture, awarded Chancellor's Gold Medal (1825)
• Weeds and Wild Flowers (1825, anonymous, privately published) [38]
• The Siamese Twins (1831)
• Eva, a true story of light and darkness (collection, 1842, 2 editions) [39]
• King Arthur (1848, 2nd ed. 1849)
• The Boatman (in Blackwood's Magazine, 1864, pseudonym Pisistratus Caxton)
• The Land of Promise: a Fable (in Littell's Living Age, May 5, 1883)

Translations

• The Poems and Ballads of Schiller (translation of Friedrich von Schiller, 1844) [40]
• The odes and epodes of Horace (1869) [41]

References

• The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors: 1855-1874 (Charles Wells Moulton, ed.); pp. 678–679

Works about Bulwer

• “Lytton, Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Lord” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• "Lord Lytton" in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers, 1873.