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SIR EDWARD BULWEE, BART. 



LYTTON, SIR EDWARD BULWER, BART. 



And thus it is that, wLile among the most popular authors in Britain 

 since Scott, be is peihapa of recent English authors the one whose 

 works are beat known on the Continent. His novels are read in trans- 

 lations not only in Frunce, Germany, ice., but in the remote parts of 1 

 Hungary. In America he is as popular as with us ; and this, though 

 Emerson, repeating a charge also made amongst ourselves, has said 

 of him that he " U distinguished for his reverence of intellect as a 

 temporality, and appeals to the worldly ambition of the student" in 

 which however according to the same critic, he but shares a spirit 

 inherent in most English literature. 



In 1827, Sir Edward, then Mr. Bulwer, married Rosina, only surviving 

 daughter of Francis Wheeler, Esq., of Lizzard-Conncll, Limerick, Ire- 



land. This lady has also led a literary career, being the authoress of 

 the following novels ' Chevely, or the Man of Honour ' (1839) ; ' The 

 I Budget of the Bubble Family ' (1840); 'Bianca Capello,' a historical 

 j romance (1842) ; 'Memoirs of a Muscovite," a story of modern Italian 

 life (1844); and 'The Peer's Daughters,' 'Behind the Scenes,' and 

 i ' The School for Husbands, or the Life and Times of Moliere.' Of 

 ; two children of Sir Edward and Lady Bulwer Lytton, one, a daughter, 

 died in early youth; the other, a son and the heir to his father's 

 estates, was attached to the British embassy at Florence, and has 

 1 recently (1856) proved the inheritance of literary genius, by a volume 

 | entitled ' Clytemnestra, the Earl's Daughter, and other Poems,' which 

 was warmly received by the critics. 



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