WIFE WAS CLEVER
BUT MADE MONEY ELY. BULWER LYTTON'S UFE. INDUSTRIOUS AND UNHAPPY, " Times."—Sydney "Sun" Special Cables. (Received November 17, 9 a.m.) LONDON, November 16. Bulwer Lytton's lifo, which is being written by his grandson, demonstrates that ho was famous as an orator, notable as a politician and renowned as a writer. * .' 1- iU, ,™UntMMt rlrv. mostio reiaiiions, ohuij; U". cpp~r.r.~ temperaments and unhappy circumstances. His wife was beautiful and clever, but ill-disciplined and wayward and exacting. She lived at the rate of £3OOO a year when their income was only a few hundreds. . Lytton made the balance by his pen with astounding industry. He completed ten novels, two long poems, a political pamphlet, a play, threo volumes of history, innumerable articles for the Press, besides being a parliamentarian, in the decade 1827 to 1837.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 10927, 17 November 1913, Page 5
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