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21 de mai. de 2024 · Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton was a British politician, poet, and critic, chiefly remembered, however, as a prolific novelist. His books, though dated, remain immensely readable, and his experiences lend his work an unusual historical interest.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Há 5 dias · Bulwer-Lytton had long suffered from a disease of the ear, and for the last two or three years of his life lived in Torquay nursing his health. After an operation to cure deafness, an abscess formed in the ear and burst; he endured intense pain for a week and died at 2 am on 18 January 1873, just short of his 70th birthday.
16 de mai. de 2024 · The English words “The pen is mightier than the sword” were first written by novelist and playwright Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839 in his historical play Cardinal Richelieu. Richelieu, chief minister to King Louis XIII, discovers a plot to kill him, but as a priest he is unable to take up arms against his enemies.
19 de mai. de 2024 · Knebworth House is a country house, located in Knebworth. It has been the home of the Lytton family since 1490, when Thomas Bourchier sold the reversion of the manor to Sir Robert Lytton. Knebworth House was originally a red-brick Late Gothic manor house, built round a central court as an open square.
31 de mai. de 2024 · Bulwer Lytton delivered many polished orations in the House of Commons, but he did not equal as a speaker the fame he acquired as a novelist. . . . Though John Stuart Mill gave utterance to some things which it required great moral courage to express, yet his Parliamentary career did not increase his world-wide fame as a thinker.
31 de mai. de 2024 · In 1533–4 his connexion with Knebworth ceased, for in that year Robert Lytton came of age and received his inheritance. Upon Robert's death without male heirs Knebworth passed by will to his brother Rowland, whose son Rowland inherited it in 1582.
21 de mai. de 2024 · Plowden married Robert Bulwer-Lytton, the first Earl of Lytton. Churchill married Clementine Churchill barely half a year after they met in 1908. Two out of his 500 paintings were accepted by the Royal Academy.
