Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward Bulwer-Lytton was born in 1803, the younger son of a general. His mother cut off his allowance when he married an Irishwoman without fortune, and he began to write for a living; the separation that followed became a public scandal. He pursued side by side a political career, as member of parliament and then Secretary of State for the Colonies, and a career as a novelist among the most widely read of his time. He died in 1873, and a town in Canada, in British Columbia, bears his name.

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• NovelThe Last Days of PompeiiEdward Bulwer-Lytton · 1834LiteraturePublic domain