Elizabeth Barbara Lytton

Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer-Lytton (born Elizabeth Barbara Warburton-Lytton) (1773–1843) [Cobbold DL, "Knebworth House", guide book, published between 1995 & 2007] [Preston J, "That Odd Rich Old Woman", Plush Publishing, 1998. The title is a quotation from the writer Elizabeth Benger, when she was invited to a party at Knebworth in 1826.] was a member of the Lytton family of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England. During her marriage to General William Earle Bulwer (1757-1807), the couple lived at Heydon Hall in Norfolk. In 1811, a few years after his death, she returned to Knebworth House, which by then had become dilapidated. She renovated it by demolishing three of its four sides and adding Gothic towers and battlements to the remaining building. She lived there with her son, the writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, until her death. Because of a long-standing dispute she had with the local church, she is buried not with her ancestors in the churchyard but in her own mausoleum in the grounds of the house.

Elizabeth Bulwer-Lytton's parents were Richard Warburton-Lytton (1745-1843) and Elizabeth Jodrell.

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* [http://www2.shu.ac.uk/corvey/CW3journal/Issue%20one/lawford.html "Turbans, Tea and Talk of Books: the Literary Parties of Elizabeth Spence and Elizabeth Benger", "Corvey Women Writers on the Web"]