Edward George Bulwer-Lytton Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873), was an English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician. He was immensely popular with the reading public and wrote a stream of bestselling novels which earned him a considerable fortune. He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", "dweller on the threshold", as well as the infamous opening line "It was a dark and stormy night".
It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.
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A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.
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Father of 1st Earl of Lytton Robert Bulwer-Lytton, and grandfather of 2nd Earl of Lytton Victor Bulwer-Lytton.
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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.
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The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, named in his honor, celebrates deliberately bad writing. Entries are encouraged to be as terrible as possible.
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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".