Bulwer-Lytton
Americannoun
noun
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From Loser Elden Carnahan, who also includes a catalogue from a Bulwer-Lytton exhibition in England.
From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2016
Mr. Dahl, a resident most recently of Jacksonville, was also vastly proud of having won, in 2000, the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, which honors deliberately dreadful prose.
From New York Times • Mar. 31, 2015
He tracked that lurid daydream back to Albany—the Piccadilly apartment complex called home by Byron, Raffles, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Ernest Worthing, and “a recognized variety of the ‘man about town.’
From Slate • Dec. 23, 2014
In this year when we've heard so much about Dickens, we haven't heard nearly enough about his forceful, energetic, spectacularly untalented friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2012
Of course I am not comparing Bulwer-Lytton with Dickens.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
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