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- Birth nameEdward George Earle (1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth) Bulwer-Lytton
- Edward George Bulwer-Lytton was born on May 25, 1803 in London, England, UK. He was a writer, known for In the Name of Love (1925), Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi (1959) and Les derniers jours de Pompei (1913). He was married to Rosina Doyle Wheeler. He died on January 18, 1873 in Torquay, Devon, England, UK.
- SpouseRosina Doyle Wheeler(August 29, 1827 - 1836) (divorced, 2 children)
- He is the originator of the now-infamous line "It was a dark and stormy night", often used by Charles M. Schulz in his comic strip "Peanuts", as a classic example of bad writing. It is from the novel "Paul Clifford".
- The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named in his honor, celebrates deliberately bad writing. Entries are encouraged to be as terrible as possible.
- He was one of Charles Dickens' closest friends and favorite authors. It was Bulwer-Lytton who persuaded Dickens to change the ending of "Great Expectations" from a downbeat ending to a happy one.
- Was made a peer in 1866.
- Father of 1st Earl of Lytton Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and grandfather of 2nd Earl of Lytton Victor Bulwer-Lytton.
- A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
- It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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