Bulwer-Lytton
Americannoun
noun
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In Week 1411 the Empress asked for a bad final sentence or two to a novel, a counterpart to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for bad opening sentences.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 17, 2020
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
Having written a definitive last encounter between Pip and Estella, Dickens was persuaded by his friend Edward Bulwer-Lytton to lighten it a little, offer a glimmer of hope for the disillusioned pair.
From Time ● Feb. 6, 2012
Bulwer-Lytton has more than once drawn to the best of his power a gentleman, and he has often drawn, or tried to draw, a man possessed by some great, impersonal, unselfish object in life.
From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by McCarthy, Justin
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