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Dismissed as the mad wife of the novelist and politician, Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rosina Bulwer-Lytton was committed to an asylum for the mentally defective by her husband for, among other reasons, openly opposing him during his campaign for election as a Tory MP. Her written retaliation transgresses the boundaries between the public and the private and, in so doing, turns biography into an act of revenge. Whether she continues to be vilified as an hysteric who misrepresented an eminent show more man or, if the time has come for her to be vindicated as a woman wronged, is for the reader of this new edition to decide. show less

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Canonical title
A Blighted Life
Original publication date
1880

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Fiction and Literature, Biography & Memoir
DDC/MDS
823.8Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction1837-1899
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PR4959 .L5 .Z76Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish Literature19th century , 1770/1800-1890/1900
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