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Edward George Earle Bulwer EDWARD GEORGE EARLE “IT WAS A DARK AND STORMY NIGHT” BULWER-LYTTON, 1ST BARON LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON “NARRATIVE HISTORY” AMOUNTS TO FABULATION, THE REAL STUFF BEING MERE CHRONOLOGY “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Bulwer-Lytton HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1803 May 25, Wednesday: Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st baron Lytton was born in London to General William Earle Bulwer of Heydon Hall and Wood Dalling, Norfolk and Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, daughter of Richard Warburton Lytton of Knebworth, Hertfordshire. (His name as assigned at birth was Edward George Earle Bulwer.) The Reverend William Emerson, pastor of the 1st Church of Boston, attended the Election Day sermon of another reverend and then dined with the governor of Massachusetts. When he returned to his parsonage he was informed of the women’s business of that day: his wife Ruth Haskins Emerson had been giving birth in Boston and the apparently healthy infant had been a manchild. The baby would be christened Ralph, after a remote uncle, and Waldo, after a family into which the Emerson family had married in the 17th century.1 (That family had been so named because it had originated with some Waldensians who had become London merchants — but in the current religious preoccupations of the Emerson family there was no trace remaining of the tradition of that Waldensianism.) WALDENSES WALDO EMERSON WALDO’S RELATIVES NOBODY COULD GUESS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN NEXT 1. Great-Great-Grandmother Rebecca Waldo of Chelmsford (born in 1662, married Edward Emerson of Newbury, died 1752); Great-Great-Great Grandfather Deacon Cornelius Waldo (born circa 1624, died January 3?, 1700 in Chelmsford) HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1807 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s father died while he was four years of age, and the family relocated to London. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1822 In this year, as 15-year-old Edward George Earle Bulwer was leaving the Baling school and matriculating at Trinity College, Cambridge, he published some of his early work as ISHMAEL AND OTHER POEMS. Soon he would change from Trinity College to Trinity Hall. TRINITY COLLEGE TRINITY HALL HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1825 Edward George Earle Bulwer was awarded the Cambridge Chancellor’s Gold Medal for English verse. • 1813 — George Waddington, for “Columbus.” • 1814 — William Whewell, for “Boadicea.” • 1815 — Edward Smirke, for “Wallace.” • 1816 — Hamilton Sydney Beresford, for “Mahomet.” • 1817 — Chauncy Hare Townshend, for “Jerusalem.” • 1818 — Charles Edward Long, for “Imperial and Papal Rome.” • 1819 — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, for “Pompeii.” • 1821 — Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay, for “Evening.” • 1823 — Winthrop Mackworth Praed, for “Australasia.” • 1824 — Winthrop Mackworth Praed, for “Athens.” • 1825 — Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, for “Sculpture.” • 1827 — Christopher Wordsworth, for “The Druids.” • 1828 — Christopher Wordsworth, for “Invasion of Russia by Napoleon Bonaparte.” • 1829 — Alfred, 1st Baron Tennyson, for “Timbuctoo.” • 1831 — George Stovin Venables, for “Attempts to find a North West Passage.” • 1842 — Henry James Sumner Maine, for “Birth of the Prince of Wales.” • 1844 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “The Tower of London.” • 1845 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “Caubul.” • 1846 — Edward Henry Bickersteth, for “Caesar’s Invasion of Britain.” • 1852 — Frederic William Farrar, for “The Arctic Regions.” LIFE IS LIVED FORWARD BUT UNDERSTOOD BACKWARD? — NO, THAT’S GIVING TOO MUCH TO THE HISTORIAN’S STORIES. LIFE ISN’T TO BE UNDERSTOOD EITHER FORWARD OR BACKWARD. “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Bulwer-Lytton HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1826 Edward George Earle Bulwer obtained his BA degree and printed for private circulation a small volume of poems, WEEDS AND WILD FLOWERS. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1827 August: After leaving the University of Cambridge Edward George Earle Bulwer had visited Paris and Versailles, and upon h is return to England he had taken up with a famous Irish beauty, Rosina Doyle Wheeler (1802-1882). During this month the couple were wed. This so angered his mother that she stopped his allowance. This year also he was publishing a 1st novel, which would be quite as unsuccessful as his marriage. With the couple’s style of life extravagant and the husband irritable and negligent, there was a clear path toward a legal separation in 1836. THE FUTURE IS MOST READILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Bulwer-Lytton HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1828 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s PELHAM caused quite a bit of guessing as to specifically which British dandies were being portrayed (the novel in part followed the line of his friend Benjamin Disraeli’s initial novel VIVIAN GREY). June 17, Tuesday: The 1st child of Edward George Earle Bulwer and Rosina Doyle Wheeler Bulwer, who would become Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1829 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s novels THE DISOWNED and DEVEREUX. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1830 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s 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. WINNERS, BULWER-LYTTON FICTION CONTEST HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1831 Edward George Earle Bulwer began to edit the New Monthly but would resign the following year. He began his political career as a follower of Jeremy Bentham when elected member for St Ives in Cornwall. He would enter Parliament as a Liberal member representing the city of Lincoln. November 8: Birth of the 2d child of Edward George Earle Bulwer and Rosina Doyle Wheeler Bulwer, (Edward) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, who would become 1st Earl of Lytton and would be the Viceroy of British India from 1876 to 1880. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1832 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s EUGENE ARAM. The author was serving as a Liberal member of Parliament representing the city of Lincoln. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1833 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH (New York: J. & J. Harper). ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH BULWER-LYTTON, VOL. II HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON (The author was serving as a Liberal member of Parliament representing the city of Lincoln. During this year he was reaching the height of his popularity with the novel GODOLPHIN.) THE FUTURE CAN BE EASILY PREDICTED IN RETROSPECT “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project Edward Bulwer-Lytton HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1834 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s THE LAST DAYS OF POMPEII was inspired by the famous painting by Karl Briullov (Carlo Brullo), which he had seen on display in Milan: (Also, during this year, Bulwer-Lytton’s THE PILGRIMS OF THE RHINE and his FALKLAND. Upon the dismissal of the Whig government, he authored a pamphlet A LETTER TO A LATE CABINET MINISTER ON THE CRISIS. Prime Minister Lord Melbourne tried to appoint him as a lord of the admiralty but his consideration was that this might impede his literary career.) Benjamin Robert Haydon completed his “Reform Banquet,” for Lord Grey (this contained 597 individual portrayals). HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1835 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s RIENZI: LAST OF THE TRIBUNES and THE STUDENT. HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1836 In about this year David Henry Thoreau studied Edward George Earle Bulwer’s ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH, published in 1833. ENGLAND AND THE ENGLISH BULWER-LYTTON, VOL. II HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON Bulwer and his wife Rosina Doyle Wheeler Bulwer had in the course of their 9 years of marriage had many violent quarrels, and at this point they legally separated. DO I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION? GOOD. Edward Bulwer-Lytton “Stack of the Artist of Kouroo” Project HDT WHAT? INDEX EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON EDWARD BULWER-LYTTON 1837 Edward George Earle Bulwer’s ATHENS: ITS RISE AND FALL; WITH VIEWS OF THE LITERATURE, PHILOSOPHY, AND SOCIAL LIFE OF THE ATHENIAN PEOPLE (2 volumes) and ERNEST MALTRAVERS. CHANGE IS ETERNITY, STASIS A FIGMENT January 30, Monday: Friend Stephen Wanton Gould wrote in his journal: 2nd day went into Town & spent the day in attending to some buisness & visiting some of my old acquaintance Dined at Dr Tobeys & returned to the School House to lodge — RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS David Henry Thoreau checked out, from Harvard Library, Volume 5 of the New Series of The Gentleman’s Magazine, dealing with that magazine’s 1836 content:2 THE GENTLEMAN’S MAG. • [iii]-iv. S:. “Preface.”the Reverend John Mitford [Originator: “Sylvanus Urban”] • pages 2. S:. Note re Robert Montgomery Martin’s History of the British Colonies. Thomas Fisher • pages 2. L:. Remarks re the Abbé de la Rue. Thomas Wright [Originator: “Gaulois”] • pages 2. L:. Genealogical note on Sacheverell family. Charles Edward Long [Originator: “l.”] • pages 3-10. Review: Thomas Frognall Dibdin’s Reminiscences of a Literary Life. The Reverend John Mitford • pages 10-13. Article: “Diary of a Lover of Literature [by Thomas Green; abridged by Mitford (cont.)].”the Reverend John Mitford • pages 14-15. Article: “Royal Porcelain Works, Worcester.” Martin Barr [Originator: “B.”] • pages 15-16.
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