Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetEdward Bulwer-Lytton
English novelist, poet, playwright, and politician (1803-1873)
Date of Birth: 25-May-1803
Place of Birth: London
Date of Death: 18-Jan-1873
Profession: writer, poet, politician, playwright, literary critic, novelist, science fiction writer
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician.
- He served as a Whig MP from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative MP from 1851 to 1866.
- He was Secretary of State for the Colonies from June 1858 to June 1859, choosing Richard Clement Moody as founder of British Columbia.
- He declined the Crown of Greece in 1862 after King Otto abdicated.
- He was created Baron Lytton of Knebworth in 1866.
- Bulwer-Lytton's works were popular and paid him well.
- He coined the phrases "the great unwashed", "pursuit of the almighty dollar", "the pen is mightier than the sword", and "dweller on the threshold".
- Then came a sharp fall in his reputation, so that he is little read today.
- The sardonic 1982 Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest claimed to seek the "opening sentence of the worst of all possible novels".
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