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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 3 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.
Há 1 dia · This discussion between Dickens, Bulwer-Lytton and Forster has provided the basis for much discussion on Dickens's underlying views for this famous novel. Earle Davis, in his 1963 study of Dickens, wrote that "it would be an inadequate moral point to deny Pip any reward after he had shown a growth of character," and that "Eleven years might change Estella too". [51]
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.
Há 6 dias · 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.
Há 3 dias · The Muse of History: The Ancient Greeks From the Enlightenment to the Present, Oswyn Murray, Allen Lane, £30. Students of ancient history at Oxford in the 1970s and 1980s, as I was, attended Oswyn Murray’s lectures with pleasure and appreciation (another such was, somewhat later, the former PM Boris Johnson, to whom Murray sent a formal renunciation of friendship after Brexit).
Há 3 dias · Tenants included the novelist Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton (1803-73), who took the house for his wife in the 1830s and lived there himself in 1835-6, and nuns of the Sacred Heart from 1842 to 1850. In 1842 the grounds totalled 11½a.
