Rosina Bulwer Lytton

Rosina Doyle Bulwer-Lytton (4 November, 1802 - 12 March, 1882), née Wheeler, wrote and published fourteen novels, a volume of essays and a volume of letters. Her husband was Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a novelist and politician. She spelled her married surname without the hyphen - it is included here for the sake of clarity as she had the middle name 'Doyle' which is sometimes mistaken for a surname.

Marital relations

She married Edward Bulwer-Lytton on 29 August, 1827 (at that time surnamed 'Bulwer'). But his writing and his efforts in the political arena took a toll upon his marriage to Rosina, and they were legally separated in 1836. Three years later, she published a novel called "Cheveley, or the Man of Honour", in which Edward Bulwer-Lytton was bitterly caricatured.

In June 1858, when her husband was standing as parliamentary candidate for Hertfordshire, she appeared at the hustings and indignantly denounced him. She was consequently placed under restraint as insane, but liberated a few weeks later. This was chronicled in her book "A Blighted Life". For years she continued her attacks upon her husband's character; she would outlive him by nine years.

Children

They had two children:

*Lady Emily Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton (17 June, 1828 - 29 April, 1848).
*(Edward) Robert Lytton Bulwer-Lytton (8 November, 1831 - 24 November, 1891). Viceroy of British India from 1876 to 1880.

Works

*"Cheveley: or, The Man of Honour" (1839)
*"The Budget of the Bubble Family" (1840)
*"The Prince-Duke and the Page: An Historical Novel" (1843)
*"Bianca Cappello: An Historical Romance" (1844)
*"Memoirs of a Muscovite" (1844)
*"The Peer's Daughters: A Novel" (1849)
*"Miriam Sedley, or the Tares and the Wheat: A Tale of Real Life" (1850)
*"The School for Husbands: or Moliére's Life and Times" (1852)
*"Behind the Scenes, A Novel" (1854)
*"The World and His Wife, or a Person of Consequence, a Photographic Novel" (1858)
*"Very Successful" (1859)
*"The Household Fairy" (1870)
*"Where there's a Will there's a Way" (1871)
*"Chumber Chase" (1871)
*"Mauleverer's Divorce" (1871)
*"Shells from the Sands of Time" (1876)
*"A Blighted Life" (1880)
*"Refutation of an Audacious Forgery of the Dowager Lady's name to a book of the Publication of which she was totally Ignorant" (1880)

External links

* [http://www.rootsweb.com/~deschart/z0000521.html A listing of descendants of the Bulwers of Heydon Hall, including her own children and further descendants]