ABSTRACT
The name 'Bulwer Lytton' means little now, but Sir Edward Bulwer was one of the most famous men of his age. He had some success as a politician - eventually rising to be Secretary of State for the Colonies under Disraeli - but he was chiefly celebrated as England's most successful and innovative novelist. Bulwer focuses now on her natural talent while allowing himself a grain of criticism: 'There is a wonderful mixture of sweetness and power in Mad. Bulwer's only major production of 1863 was Caxtoniana. This is a collection of essays, the first of which appeared in Blackwood's Magazine in February 1862 and the last, the twentieth, in October 1863. The illustrious English novelist, Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton - who later became Lord Lytton - Mr Benson, a rich German-American industrialist whose sumptuous library contained manuscripts as precious as those Anatole France discovered in Sylvetre Bonnard's city of books.
