The Cottage was lived in by Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( who wrote The Last Days of Pompeii ) and other somewhat notable ( and moneyed ) persons until it was destroyed by fire in May 1888.

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC ( 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873 ), was an English politician, poet, playwright, and novelist.

In 1866 Bulwer-Lytton was raised to the peerage as Baron Lytton.

The English Rosicrucian society, founded in 1867 by Robert Wentworth Little, claimed Bulwer-Lytton as their ' Grand Patron ', but he wrote to the society complaining that he was ' extremely surprised ' by their use of the title, as he had ' never sanctioned such '.

Against his wishes, Bulwer-Lytton was honoured with a burial in Westminster Abbey.

The Last Days of Pompeii was inspired by Karl Briullov's painting, The Last Day of Pompeii, which Bulwer-Lytton saw in Milan.

Bulwer-Lytton's name lives on in the annual Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, in which contestants think-up terrible openings for imaginary novels, inspired by the first line of his novel Paul Clifford: It was a dark and stormy night ; the rain fell in torrents — except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets ( for it is in London that our scene lies ), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.

Thackeray was a fierce critic of the crime fiction popular at the time, particularly that of Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

It was based on the play, " Richelieu ", by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, which had Richelieu utter the famous line, " The pen is mightier than the sword.

Lytton was named for the English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

In 1853, Levi visited England, where he met the novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who was interested in Rosicrucianism as a literary theme and was the president of a minor Rosicrucian order.

In 1857 the island was purchased by the British ambassador Henry Bulwer, brother of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who built himself a mansion and a small castle-like structure to live undisturbed on this distant island.

The contest was started in 1982 by Professor Scott E. Rice of the English Department at San Jose State University and is named for English novelist and playwright Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author of the much-quoted first line " It was a dark and stormy night ".

According to Brantlinger, Haggard certainly read and was aware of the stories of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, in particular A Strange Story ( 1862 ) which includes a mysterious, veiled woman called " Ayesha ", and The Coming Race ( 1871 ) about the discovery of a subterranean civilisation.

In 1846 Edward Bulwer-Lytton collected some of his prose-essays under the title Sketches of Life, to which a memoir of the author was prefixed.

When it was proposed that the admirers and supporters of the paper should facilitate a reduction in its price by the payment of their subscription ten years in advance, not only did Edward Bulwer-Lytton volunteer his aid, but also Benjamin Disraeli, who was then flirting with radicalism.

Edward Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, GCB, GCSI, GCIE, PC ( 8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891 ) was an English statesman and poet.

While some have questioned his handling of the Indian famine, his diplomatic career was otherwise highly praised and his son, Victor Bulwer-Lytton, 2nd Earl of Lytton, followed him to India as Governor of Bengal and, for a time, as acting Viceroy.

He was a son of novelists Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and Rosina Doyle Wheeler daughter of the early women's rights advocate Anna Doyle Wheeler.

* January 18-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, author ( born 1803 )

Hermione Cobbold, Baroness Cobbold ( born Margaret Hermione Millicent Bulwer-Lytton ; 31 August 1905 – 27 October 2004 ) known as Lady Hermione Bulwer-Lytton until 1930 was the British matriarch of Knebworth House and wife of Cameron Fromanteel Cobbold, 1st Baron Cobbold.

With Gladstone's refusal Derby and Disraeli looked elsewhere and settled on Disraeli's old friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who became Secretary of State for the Colonies ; Derby's son Lord Stanley, succeeded Ellenborough at the Board of Control.

* John S. Moore's essay on Bulwer-Lytton

Two years after she proposed to him and in the face of parental disapproval, Lady Emily Bulwer-Lytton ( 1874 – 1964 ), third daughter of Edward Bulwer-Lytton the 1st Earl of Lytton, a former Viceroy of India, and Edith Villiers, married Lutyens on 4 August 1897 at Knebworth, Hertfordshire.

In 2011 he made his radio directing debut with a production of Money by Edward Bulwer-Lytton on BBC Radio 3.

Eliphas Lévi conceived the notion of writing a treatise on magic with his friend Bulwer-Lytton.

It opened on 17 December 1884 with a revival of Richelieu by Bulwer-Lytton.

Drawing inspiration from novels of Edward Bulwer-Lytton ( Harold: the Last of the Saxon Kings-for the location of the opera to Britain in the Middle Ages and for the names of its characters, the principal being Aroldo, re-cast as a recently-returned Crusader ) and " hints " from the work of Walter Scott ( The Bethrothed-1825-and The Lady of the Lake ), the rewriting was delayed until after March 1857 by the preparation for Paris of Le trouvère, the French version of Il trovatore, and his work with Piave on Simon Boccanegra.

Der Bettelstudent ( The Beggar Student ) is an operetta in three acts by Carl Millöcker with a German libretto by Camillo Walzel ( under the pseudonym of F. Zell ) and Richard Genée, based on Les noces de Fernande by Victorien Sardou and The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

In 1857, the island was purchased by the British ambassador Henry Bulwer, brother of novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who built himself a mansion and a small castle-like structure to live undisturbed on this distant island.

The Lyttle Lytton Contest ( run by Adam Cadre ) varies from the Bulwer-Lytton in favoring extremely short first sentences, of 25 words or fewer.

* Edward George Earl Bulwer-Lytton ( 1803 – 73 )

* January 18 – Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, English writer ( b. 1803 )

* Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ( 1803 – 1873 )

* Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ( 1803 – 1873 ), novelist and politician

A more recent author famous for purple prose is Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton ( 1803 – 1873 ), who begins his novel Paul Clifford ( 1830 ) with the sentence:

The Lytton Commission was headed by V. A. G. R. Bulwer-Lytton, the second Earl of Lytton of the United Kingdom, and included four other men, one each from the US ( Major General Frank Ross McCoy ), Germany ( Dr. Heinrich Schnee ), Italy ( Count Aldrovandi-Marescotti ), and France ( General Henri Claudel ).

Among her most celebrated roles with Irving were Ophelia, Pauline in The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Portia ( 1879 ), Queen Henrietta Maria in William Gorman Wills's drama Charles I ( 1879 ), Desdemona in Othello ( 1881 ), Camma in Tennyson's short tragedy The Cup ( 1881 ), Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing, another of her signature roles ( 1882 and often thereafter ), Juliet in Romeo and Juliet ( 1882 ), Jeanette in The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the title part in Reade's romantic comedy Nance Oldfield ( 1883 ), Viola in Twelfth Night ( 1884 ), Margaret in the long-running adaptation of Faust by Wills ( 1885 ), the title role in Olivia ( 1885, which she had played earlier at the Court Theatre ), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Arthur Sullivan ), Queen Katherine in Henry VIII ( 1892 ), Cordelia in King Lear ( 1892 ), Rosamund de Clifford in Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), Guinevere in King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sullivan ( 1895 ), Imogen in Cymbeline ( 1896 ), the title character in Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ) and Volumnia in Coriolanus ( 1901 ).

Among her friends she counted such literary and political luminaries as Samuel Rogers, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edward Trelawney, Mary Shelley, Fanny Kemble, Benjamin Disraeli, the future King Leopold I of Belgium and William Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire.

His friends in literary and dramatic circles included William Makepeace Thackeray, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Matthew Arnold, Anthony Trollope, W. S. Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, Edmund Yates, Charles Dickens and others.

Other celebrated productions included Much Ado About Nothing, The Lady of Lyons by Edward George Bulwer-Lytton ( 1878 ), Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, The Lyons Mail by Charles Reade ( 1883 ), the immensely popular Faust by William Gorman Wills ( 1885, which even drew applications for reserved seats from foreigners ), Macbeth ( 1888, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ), Henry VII ( 1892 ), Becket by Alfred Tennyson ( 1893 ), King Arthur by J. Comyns Carr, with incidental music by Sir Arthur Sullivan ( 1895 ), Cymbeline ( 1896 ) and Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's play Madame Sans-Gêne ( 1897 ).

Historic NEAC members and exhibitors include Thomas Kennington ( founder member and first secretary ), Frank Bramley ( foundation member ), Alfred William Rich, Margaret Preston, Walter Sickert, Augustus John, Charles Wellington Furse, William Rothenstein, Lindsay Bernard Hall, Thomas Cooper Gotch, Mary Sargant Florence, Henry Strachey, Clare Atwood, Eve Garnett, Frank McEwen, James Jebusa Shannon, James Jebusa Shannon, Cecil Mary Leslie, Mary Elizabeth Atkins, Philip Wilson Steer, Neville Bulwer-Lytton, 3rd Earl of Lytton, Muirhead Bone, Robert Polhill Bevan, Dugald Sutherland MacColl, Neville Lewis, Charles Holmes, Carron O Lodge, Geoffrey Tibble, Alexander Mann, Hercules Brabazon Brabazon and Frank Hughes.