TIMELINE

THE PRINCIPAL EVENTS OF
EDWARD BULWER LYTTON'S LIFE
AND THE PUBLICATION DATES OF
HIS MAIN WORK

1803	Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer born
1822	Fellow Commoner of Trinity Hall, Cambridge
1824-6	Travel in England and abroad
1827	Marries Rosina Doyle Wheeler
1828	Pelham and The Disowned
1829	Devereux
1830	Paul Clifford
1831	Editor of the New Monthly Magazine M.P. for St Ives, Huntingdonshire
1832	Eugene Aram M.P. for Lincoln
1833	Godolphin. Breakdown of health and journey to Italy
1834	The Last Days of Pompeii and Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister. Met actor-manager Macready
1835	Rienzi
1836	Final separation from Rosina
1837	The Duchesse de Ia Valliere (first play) and Ernest Maltravers
1838	The Lady of Lyons. Created a baronet
1840	Money
1841	Night and Morning. Resigned seat in House of Commons
1842	Zanoni
1843	The Last of the Barons
1846	Lucretia
1848	Harold and King Arthur
1849	The Caxtons
1851	Joined Conservative Party
1852	M.P. for Hertford
1858	What Will He Do With It? Secretary of State for the Colonies
1861	A Strange Story
1866	Raised to the peerage as Lord Lytton of Knebworth.
1871	The Coming Race
1873	Kenelm Chillingly. Lord Lytton died on 18th January

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