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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Index Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, PC (25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English novelist, poet, playwright and politician. [1]

166 relations: A Blighted Life, A Wrinkle in Time, Abel Smith (1829–1898), Admiralty, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Almighty dollar, Annie Besant, Aroldo, Benjamin Disraeli, Bestseller, Blackwood's Magazine, Bon-Bon (short story), Boppard, Bovril, Bram Stoker, Brett Usher, British Columbia, Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, California Theatre (San Francisco), Camchin, Cardinal Richelieu (film), CBC News, Chancellor's Gold Medal, Charles Dickens, Charles Pelham Villiers, Charles Sibthorp, Christopher William Puller, Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866), Commission de toponymie du Québec, Conservative Party (UK), Corn Laws, Craven Cottage, Debut novel, Disraeli (TV serial), Dracula, Earl of Lytton, Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, Elizabeth Barbara Lytton, Errico Petrella, Eugene Aram (novel), Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, Fraser River, Frederic Hymen Cowen, Fulham F.C., George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, George Heneage, Gisborne, New Zealand, Godolphin (novel), Governor-General of India, ..., Great Expectations, Guardian of the Threshold, Hearing loss, Helena Blavatsky, Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer, Henry Cowper (died 1887), Henry Fauntleroy, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle, Henry Surtees (MP), Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency), Heydon, Norfolk, Historical fiction, Hoi polloi, Hollow Earth, House of Lords, Hudson's Bay Company, Husting, Hydrotherapy, Isaac Asimov, Isaac D'Israeli, It was a dark and stormy night, James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin, James Douglas (governor), James Halse, James Manby Gully, James Morrison (businessman), Jeremy Bentham, John Auldjo, John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, Jone (opera), Karl Bryullov, Knebworth, Knebworth House, Laza Kostić, Leila; or, The Siege of Granada, Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency), List of science fiction themes, Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales, Lytton High School, Lytton, British Columbia, Lytton, Queensland, Malvern, Worcestershire, Member of parliament, Milan, Money (play), Montcerf-Lytton, Quebec, Mystery fiction, Mysticism, Newbery Medal, Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, Occult, Otto of Greece, Oxford English Dictionary, Parliament of England, Paul Clifford, Pauline (opera), Peanuts, Peerage, Petersham, London, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Privy Council of the United Kingdom, Queen Victoria, R. T. Claridge, Rector of the University of Glasgow, Reform Act 1832, Richard Clement Moody, Richard Wagner, Richard Warburton Lytton, Richelieu (play), Rienzi, Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Robert Wentworth Little, Romance novel, Rosicrucianism, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment, Scala Theatre, Second Derby–Disraeli ministry, Secretary of State for the Colonies, Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet, Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet, Snoopy, St Ives (UK Parliament constituency), Taxes on knowledge, The Canadian Press, The Caxtons, The Lady of Lyons, The Last Day of Pompeii, The Last Days of Pompeii, The Last of the Barons, The pen is mightier than the sword, The Right Honourable, Theatre Royal Haymarket, Theosophy (Boehmian), Thomas Moody (1779–1849), Thomas Plumer Halsey, Thomas Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre, Thompson River, Torquay, Trinity College, Cambridge, Trinity Hall, Cambridge, United Kingdom general election, 1832–33, United Kingdom general election, 1841, United Kingdom general election, 1852, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, Vincenz Priessnitz, Vivian Grey, Vril, Westminster Abbey, Whigs (British political party), William Henry Fry, William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, William Makepeace Thackeray, William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington, Wood Dalling, Zanoni. Expand index (116 more) »

A Blighted Life

A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.

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A Wrinkle in Time

A Wrinkle in Time is a science fantasy novel written by American writer Madeleine L'Engle, first published in 1962.

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Abel Smith (1829–1898)

Abel Smith JP (30 December 1829 – 30 May 1898) was an English landowner of the Smith banking family and Conservative politician.

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Admiralty

The Admiralty, originally known as the Office of the Admiralty and Marine Affairs, was the government department responsible for the command of the Royal Navy firstly in the Kingdom of England, secondly in the Kingdom of Great Britain, and from 1801 to 1964, the United Kingdom and former British Empire.

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson (6 August 1809 – 6 October 1892) was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets.

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Almighty dollar

"Almighty dollar" is an idiom often used to satirize obsession with material wealth, or with capitalism in general.

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Annie Besant

Annie Besant, née Wood (1 October 1847 – 20 September 1933) was a British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, writer and orator and supporter of Irish and Indian self-rule.

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Aroldo

Aroldo is an opera in four acts by Giuseppe Verdi to an Italian libretto by Francesco Maria Piave, based on and adapted from their earlier 1850 collaboration, Stiffelio.

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Benjamin Disraeli

Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, (21 December 1804 – 19 April 1881) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who twice served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

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Bestseller

A bestseller is, usually, a book that is included on a list of top-selling or frequently-borrowed titles, normally based on publishing industry and book trade figures and library circulation statistics; such lists may be published by newspapers, magazines, or book store chains.

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Blackwood's Magazine

Blackwood's Magazine was a British magazine and miscellany printed between 1817 and 1980.

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Bon-Bon (short story)

"Bon-Bon" is a comedic short story by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in December 1832 in the Philadelphia Saturday Courier.

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Boppard

Boppard, formerly also spelled Boppart, is a town and municipality (since the 1976 inclusion of 9 neighbouring villages, Ortsbezirken) in the Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis (district) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, lying in the Rhine Gorge, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

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Bovril

Bovril is the trademarked name of a thick and salty meat extract paste similar to a yeast extract, developed in the 1870s by John Lawson Johnston.

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Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker (8 November 1847 – 20 April 1912) was an Irish author, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula.

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Brett Usher

Brett Usher (10 December 1946– 13 June 2013) was an English actor, writer and ecclesiastical historian.

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British Columbia

British Columbia (BC; Colombie-Britannique) is the westernmost province of Canada, located between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains.

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Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (BLFC) is a tongue-in-cheek contest, held annually and sponsored by the English Department of San Jose State University in San Jose, California.

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California Theatre (San Francisco)

The California Theatre (San Francisco), was located at 414 (now 440) Bush Street, San Francisco.

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Camchin

Camchin, also spelled Kumsheen, is an anglicization of the ancient name for the locality and aboriginal village once located on the site of today's Village of Lytton, British Columbia, Canada, whose name in the Nlaka'pamux language is ƛ'q'əmcín It also refers to the main Indian Reserve community of the Lytton First Nation adjacent to the Village of Lytton and is found in the form Kumsheen in local business and school names.

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Cardinal Richelieu (film)

Cardinal Richelieu is a 1935 American historical film directed by Rowland V. Lee and starring George Arliss, Maureen O'Sullivan, Edward Arnold and Cesar Romero.

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CBC News

CBC News is the division of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation responsible for the news gathering and production of news programs on the corporation's English-language operations, namely CBC Television, CBC Radio, CBC News Network, and CBC.ca.

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Chancellor's Gold Medal

The Chancellor's Gold Medal is a prestigious annual award at Cambridge University for poetry, paralleling Oxford University's Newdigate prize.

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Charles Dickens

Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

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Charles Pelham Villiers

Charles Pelham Villiers (3 January 1802 – 16 January 1898) was a British lawyer and politician from the aristocratic Villiers family who sat in the House of Commons from 1835 to 1898, making him the longest-serving Member of Parliament (MP).

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Charles Sibthorp

Charles de Laet Waldo Sibthorp (14 February 1783 – 14 December 1855), popularly known as Colonel Sibthorp, was a widely caricatured British Ultra-Tory politician in the early 19th century.

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Christopher William Puller

Christopher William Puller (1807–1864), from 1857 Christopher William Giles Puller, was an English barrister and politician.

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Colony of British Columbia (1858–1866)

The Colony of British Columbia was a crown colony in British North America from 1858 until 1866.

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Commission de toponymie du Québec

The Commission de toponymie du Québec (English: Toponymy Commission of Québec) is the Government of Québec's public body responsible for cataloging, preserving, making official and publicize Québec's place names and their origins according to the province's toponymy rules.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative Party, officially the Conservative and Unionist Party, is a centre-right political party in the United Kingdom.

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Corn Laws

The Corn Laws were tariffs and other trade restrictions on imported food and grain ("corn") enforced in Great Britain between 1815 and 1846.

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Craven Cottage

Craven Cottage is a football stadium located in Fulham, London.

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Debut novel

A debut novel is the first novel a novelist publishes.

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Disraeli (TV serial)

Disraeli is a British four-part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.

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Dracula

Dracula is an 1897 Gothic horror novel by Irish author Bram Stoker.

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Earl of Lytton

Earl of Lytton, in the County of Derby, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby

Edward George Geoffrey Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, (29 March 1799 – 23 October 1869) was a British statesman, three-time Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and, to date, the longest-serving leader of the Conservative Party.

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Edward Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby

Edward Henry Stanley, 15th Earl of Derby, (21 July 1826 – 21 April 1893), known as Lord Stanley from 1851 to 1869, was a British statesman.

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Elizabeth Barbara Lytton

Elizabeth Barbara Bulwer-Lytton (born Elizabeth Barbara Warburton-Lytton) (1773—1843) was a member of the Lytton family of Knebworth House in Hertfordshire, England.

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Errico Petrella

Errico Petrella (10 December 18137 April 1877) was an Italian opera composer.

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Eugene Aram (novel)

Eugene Aram is a melodramatic novel by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1832.

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Fraser Canyon Gold Rush

The Fraser Canyon Gold Rush, (also Fraser Gold Rush and Fraser River Gold Rush) began in 1857 after gold was discovered on the Thompson River in British Columbia at its confluence with the Nicoamen River a few miles upstream from the Thompson's confluence with the Fraser River at present-day Lytton.

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Fraser River

The Fraser River is the longest river within British Columbia, Canada, rising at Fraser Pass near Blackrock Mountain in the Rocky Mountains and flowing for, into the Strait of Georgia at the city of Vancouver.

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Frederic Hymen Cowen

Sir Frederic Hymen Cowen (29 January 1852 – 6 October 1935), was a British pianist, conductor and composer.

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Fulham F.C.

Fulham Football Club is a professional association football club based in Fulham, London, England.

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George Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll

George John Douglas Campbell, 8th Duke of Argyll, (30 April 1823 – 24 April 1900), styled Marquess of Lorne until 1847, was a Scottish peer and Liberal politician as well as a writer on science, religion, and the politics of the 19th century.

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George Heneage

George Fieschi Heneage (22 November 1800 – 11 May 1864) was a British Whig and later Conservative Party politician.

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Gisborne, New Zealand

Gisborne (Tūranga-nui-a-Kiwa "Great standing place of Kiwa") is a city in northeastern New Zealand and the largest settlement in the Gisborne District (or Gisborne Region).

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Godolphin (novel)

Godolphin is a satirical 19th-century British romance novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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Governor-General of India

The Governor-General of India (or, from 1858 to 1947, officially the Viceroy and Governor-General of India, commonly shortened to Viceroy of India) was originally the head of the British administration in India and, later, after Indian independence in 1947, the representative of the Indian head of state.

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Great Expectations

Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip.

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Guardian of the Threshold

The Guardian of the Threshold is a menacing figure that is described by a number of esoteric teachers.

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Hearing loss

Hearing loss, also known as hearing impairment, is a partial or total inability to hear.

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Helena Blavatsky

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Еле́на Петро́вна Блава́тская, Yelena Petrovna Blavatskaya; 8 May 1891) was a Russian occultist, philosopher, and author who co-founded the Theosophical Society in 1875.

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Henry Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer

(William) Henry Lytton Earle Bulwer, 1st Baron Dalling and Bulwer GCB, PC (13 February 180123 May 1872) was a British Liberal politician, diplomat and writer.

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Henry Cowper (died 1887)

Henry Frederick Cowper (18 April 1836 – 10 November 1887) was a British Liberal Party politician.

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Henry Fauntleroy

Henry Fauntleroy (12 October 1784 – 30 November 1824) was an English banker and forger.

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Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle

Henry Pelham Fiennes Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle-under-Lyne KG, PC (22 May 1811 – 18 October 1864), styled Earl of Lincoln before 1851, was a British politician.

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Henry Surtees (MP)

Henry Edward Surtees,, (9 May 1819 – 31 July 1895) was a British Conservative Party politician.

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Hertfordshire (UK Parliament constituency)

Hertfordshire was a county constituency covering the county of Hertfordshire in England.

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Heydon, Norfolk

Heydon, Norfolk, is an English village in the county of Norfolk and district of Broadland. Heydon is about north of Reepham, and has no through road, making it isolated except from the south. It consists of a large green, surrounded by picturesque houses and cottages.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which the plot takes place in a setting located in the past.

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Hoi polloi

Hoi polloi (πολλοί, hoi polloi, "the many") is an expression from Greek that means the many or, in the strictest sense, the people.

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Hollow Earth

The Hollow Earth is a historical concept proposing that the planet Earth is entirely hollow or contains a substantial interior space.

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House of Lords

The House of Lords of the United Kingdom, also known as the House of Peers, is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Hudson's Bay Company

The Hudson's Bay Company (HBC; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson) is a Canadian retail business group.

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Husting

A husting originally referred to a native Germanic governing assembly, the thing.

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Hydrotherapy

Hydrotherapy, formerly called hydropathy and also called water cure, is a part of alternative medicine, in particular of naturopathy, occupational therapy and physiotherapy, that involves the use of water for pain relief and treatment.

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Isaac Asimov

Isaac Asimov (January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston University.

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Isaac D'Israeli

Isaac D'Israeli (11 May 1766 – 19 January 1848) was a British writer, scholar and man of letters.

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It was a dark and stormy night

"It was a dark and stormy night" is an often-mocked and parodied phrase written by English novelist Edward Bulwer-Lytton in the opening sentence of his 1830 novel Paul Clifford.

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James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin

James Bruce, 8th Earl of Elgin and 12th Earl of Kincardine, (20 July 1811 – 20 November 1863) was a British colonial administrator and diplomat. He served as Governor of Jamaica (1842–1846), Governor General of the Province of Canada (1847–1854), and Viceroy of India (1862–1863). In 1857, he was appointed High Commissioner and Plenipotentiary in China and the Far East to assist in the process of opening up China and Japan to Western trade. In 1860, during the Second Opium War in China, in the retaliation of the torture and execution of almost twenty European and Indian prisoners, he ordered the destruction of the Old Summer Palace in Beijing, an architectural wonder with immeasurable collections of artworks and historic antiques, inflicting invaluable loss of cultural heritage. Subsequently, he submitted the Qing Dynasty to the unequal treaty of the Convention of Peking, adding Kowloon Peninsula to the British crown colony of Hong Kong.

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James Douglas (governor)

Sir James Douglas KCB (August 15, 1803 – August 2, 1877), influential in the history of Canada first a fur trader and later a colonial governor, is often credited as "The Father of British Columbia".

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James Halse

James Halse (bapt. 28 January 1769 – 14 May 1838) was an English lawyer and wealthy businessman in Cornwall.

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James Manby Gully

James Manby Gully (14 March 1808 – 1883) was a Victorian medical doctor, well known for practising hydrotherapy, or the "water cure".

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James Morrison (businessman)

James Morrison (1789–1857) was a British millionaire businessman and Member of Parliament.

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Jeremy Bentham

Jeremy Bentham (15 February 1748 – 6 June 1832) was an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.

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John Auldjo

John Richardson Auldjo (26 July 1805 – 6 May 1886), FRS, FRGS, was a Canadian-British traveller, geologist, writer and artist.

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John Russell, 1st Earl Russell

John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, (18 August 1792 – 28 May 1878), known by his courtesy title Lord John Russell before 1861, was a leading Whig and Liberal politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on two occasions during the early Victorian era.

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Jone (opera)

Jone, ossia L'ultimo giorno di Pompei is an opera in four acts by Errico Petrella.

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Karl Bryullov

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в; 12 December 1799 – 11 June 1852), original name Charles Bruleau, also transliterated Briullov or Briuloff and referred to by his friends as "The Great Karl", was a Russian painter.

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Knebworth

Knebworth is a village and civil parish in the north of Hertfordshire, England, immediately south of Stevenage.

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Knebworth House

Knebworth House is a country house in the civil parish of Knebworth in Hertfordshire, England.

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Laza Kostić

Lazar "Laza" Kostić (Лазар "Лаза" Костић; 1841, Kovilj – 27 November 1910, Vienna) was a Serbian poet, prose writer, lawyer, philosopher, polyglot, publicist, and politician, considered to be one of the greatest minds of Serbian literature.

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Leila; or, The Siege of Granada

Leila; or, The Siege of Granada is a historical romance novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton published in 1838.

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Lincoln (UK Parliament constituency)

Lincoln is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Karen Lee, a Labour Party politician.

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List of science fiction themes

The following is a list of articles about recurring themes in science fiction.

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Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales

The Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales is the head of the judiciary and President of the Courts of England and Wales.

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Lytton High School

Lytton High School is a co-educational state secondary school in Gisborne, New Zealand for students in Years 9 to 13.

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Lytton, British Columbia

Lytton in British Columbia, Canada, sits at the confluence of the Thompson River and Fraser River on the east side of the Fraser.

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Lytton, Queensland

Lytton is an outer riverside suburb of Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.

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Malvern, Worcestershire

Malvern is a spa town and civil parish in Worcestershire, England.

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Member of parliament

A member of parliament (MP) is the representative of the voters to a parliament.

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Milan

Milan (Milano; Milan) is a city in northern Italy, capital of Lombardy, and the second-most populous city in Italy after Rome, with the city proper having a population of 1,380,873 while its province-level municipality has a population of 3,235,000.

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Money (play)

Money is a comic play by Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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Montcerf-Lytton, Quebec

Montcerf-Lytton is a municipality in La Vallée-de-la-Gatineau Regional County Municipality, Quebec, Canada.

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Mystery fiction

Mystery fiction is a genre of fiction usually involving a mysterious death or a crime to be solved.

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Mysticism

Mysticism is the practice of religious ecstasies (religious experiences during alternate states of consciousness), together with whatever ideologies, ethics, rites, myths, legends, and magic may be related to them.

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Newbery Medal

The John Newbery Medal is a literary award given by the Association for Library Service to Children, a division of the American Library Association (ALA).

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Not So Bad as We Seem, or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts

Not So Bad as We Seem, Or, Many Sides to a Character: A Comedy in Five Acts, was a play written by Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1851, and performed the same year as a charity event to benefit the Literary Guild, a society for struggling authors.

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Occult

The term occult (from the Latin word occultus "clandestine, hidden, secret") is "knowledge of the hidden".

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Otto of Greece

Otto (Óthon; 1 June 1815 – 26 July 1867) was a Bavarian prince who became the first modern King of Greece in 1832 under the Convention of London.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the main historical dictionary of the English language, published by the Oxford University Press.

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Parliament of England

The Parliament of England was the legislature of the Kingdom of England, existing from the early 13th century until 1707, when it became the Parliament of Great Britain after the political union of England and Scotland created the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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Paul Clifford

Paul Clifford is a novel published in 1830 by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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Pauline (opera)

Pauline is an opera in four acts with music by the British composer Frederic H. Cowen to a libretto by Henry Hersee after The Lady of Lyons by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, first performed by the Carl Rosa Opera Company 22 September 1876 at the Lyceum Theatre, London.

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Peanuts

Peanuts is a syndicated daily and Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz that ran from October 2, 1950, to February 13, 2000, continuing in reruns afterward.

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Peerage

A peerage is a legal system historically comprising hereditary titles in various countries, comprising various noble ranks.

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Petersham, London

Petersham is a village in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames on the east of the bend in the River Thames south of Richmond, which it shares with neighbouring Ham.

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Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is the head of the United Kingdom government.

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Privy Council of the United Kingdom

Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, usually known simply as the Privy Council, is a formal body of advisers to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom.

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Queen Victoria

Victoria (Alexandrina Victoria; 24 May 1819 – 22 January 1901) was Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death.

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R. T. Claridge

Captain Richard Tappin Claridge, FSA (c. 1797/1799–1857), was a prominent asphalt contractor and captain in the Middlesex Militia, who became best known for his prominent promotion of hydropathy, now known as hydrotherapy, in the 1840s.

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Rector of the University of Glasgow

The Lord Rector (more commonly known just as the Rector) of the University of Glasgow is one of the most senior posts within that institution, elected every three years by students.

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Reform Act 1832

The Representation of the People Act 1832 (known informally as the 1832 Reform Act, Great Reform Act or First Reform Act to distinguish it from subsequent Reform Acts) was an Act of Parliament of the United Kingdom (indexed as 2 & 3 Will. IV c. 45) that introduced wide-ranging changes to the electoral system of England and Wales.

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Richard Clement Moody

His Excellency, Major-General The Honourable Richard Clement Moody (13 February 1813 – 31 March 1887) was a British Imperialist, Colonial Governor, Royal Engineer, musician, and architect.

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Richard Wagner

Wilhelm Richard Wagner (22 May 181313 February 1883) was a German composer, theatre director, polemicist, and conductor who is chiefly known for his operas (or, as some of his later works were later known, "music dramas").

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Richard Warburton Lytton

Richard Warburton Lytton (1745–1810) was an English landowner and Fellow of the Royal Society.

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Richelieu (play)

Richelieu; Or the Conspiracy (generally shortened to Richelieu) is an 1839 historical play by the British writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton.

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Rienzi

(Rienzi, the last of the tribunes; WWV 49) is an early opera by Richard Wagner in five acts, with the libretto written by the composer after Edward Bulwer-Lytton's novel of the same name (1835).

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton

Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (8 November 1831 – 24 November 1891) was an English statesman and poet (under the pen name Owen Meredith).

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Robert Wentworth Little

Robert Wentworth Little (1840 – April 11, 1878) was a clerk and cashier at the Grand Lodge of British Columbia and Yukon of the secretary’s office at the United Grand Lodge of England and later secretary of the Royal Institution for Girls.

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Romance novel

Although the genre is very old, the romance novel or romantic novel discussed in this article is the mass-market version.

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Rosicrucianism

Rosicrucianism is a spiritual and cultural movement which arose in Europe in the early 17th century after the publication of several texts which purported to announce the existence of a hitherto unknown esoteric order to the world and made seeking its knowledge attractive to many.

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Rosina Bulwer Lytton

Rosina Bulwer Lytton (née Rosina Doyle Wheeler; 4 November 1802 – 12 March 1882) wrote and published fourteen novels, a volume of essays and a volume of letters.

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Royal Engineers, Columbia Detachment

The Columbia Detachment of the Royal Engineers was a contingent of the Royal Engineers of the British Army that was responsible for the foundation of British Columbia as the Colony of British Columbia (1858–66).

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Scala Theatre

The Scala Theatre was a theatre in London, sited on Charlotte Street, off Tottenham Court Road, in the London Borough of Camden.

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Second Derby–Disraeli ministry

The Conservative government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland that began in 1858 and ended in 1859 was led by Lord Derby in the House of Lords and Benjamin Disraeli in the House of Commons.

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Secretary of State for the Colonies

The Secretary of State for the Colonies or Colonial Secretary was the British Cabinet minister in charge of managing the United Kingdom's various colonial dependencies.

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Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet

Sir Alexander James Edmund Cockburn, 12th Baronet (24 September 1802 – 28 November 1880) was a Scottish jurist and politician who served as the Lord Chief Justice for 21 years.

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Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet

Sir Henry Meux, 2nd Baronet (28 December 1817 – 1 January 1883), was head of Meux and Co., a London brewery, and a Member of Parliament (MP).

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Snoopy

Snoopy is Charlie Brown's pet beagle in the comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz.

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St Ives (UK Parliament constituency)

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Taxes on knowledge

Taxes on knowledge was a slogan defining an extended British campaign against duties and taxes on newspapers, their advertising content, and the paper they were printed on.

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The Canadian Press

The Canadian Press (CP; La Presse Canadienne) is a national news agency headquartered in Toronto, Canada.

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The Caxtons

The Caxtons: A Family Picture is an 1849 Victorian novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton that was popular in its time.

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The Lady of Lyons

The Lady of Lyons; or, Love and Pride, commonly known as The Lady of Lyons, is a five act romantic melodrama written in 1838 by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton.

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The Last Day of Pompeii

The Last Day of Pompeii is a large history painting by Karl Bryullov produced in 1830–1833 on the subject of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79.

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The Last Days of Pompeii

The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834.

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The Last of the Barons

The Last of the Barons is a historical novel by the English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton first published in 1843.

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The pen is mightier than the sword

"The pen is mightier than the sword" is a metonymic adage, coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication (particularly written language), or in some interpretations, administrative power or advocacy of an independent press, is a more effective tool than direct violence.

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The Right Honourable

The Right Honourable (The Rt Hon. or Rt Hon.) is an honorific style traditionally applied to certain persons and to certain collective bodies in the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, India, some other Commonwealth realms, the Anglophone Caribbean, Mauritius, and occasionally elsewhere.

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Theatre Royal Haymarket

The Theatre Royal Haymarket (also known as Haymarket Theatre or the Little Theatre) is a West End theatre in the Haymarket in the City of Westminster which dates back to 1720, making it the third-oldest London playhouse still in use.

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Theosophy (Boehmian)

Theosophy, also known as Christian theosophy and Boehmian theosophy, refers to a range of positions within Christianity which focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe.

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Thomas Moody (1779–1849)

Colonel Thomas Moody (1779–1849),, Knight of the Order of Military Merit of France, was a British Aide-de-camp to the Colonial Office, Royal Engineer, and merchant.

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Thomas Plumer Halsey

Thomas Plumer Halsey MP (26 January 1815 – 24 April 1854) was a Member of Parliament for Hertfordshire from 1846 to 1854.

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Thomas Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre

Thomas Crosbie William Trevor, 22nd Baron Dacre (5 December 1808 – 26 February 1890) was a British landowner and politician.

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Thompson River

The Thompson River is the largest tributary of the Fraser River, flowing through the south-central portion of British Columbia, Canada.

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Torquay

Torquay is a seaside town in Devon, England, part of the unitary authority area of Torbay.

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Trinity College, Cambridge

Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England.

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Trinity Hall, Cambridge

Trinity Hall is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge, England.

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United Kingdom general election, 1832–33

The United Kingdom general election, the first after the Reform Act, saw the Whigs win a large majority, with the Tories winning less than 30% of the vote.

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United Kingdom general election, 1841

In the 1841 United Kingdom general election, there was a big swing as Sir Robert Peel's Conservatives took control of the House of Commons.

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United Kingdom general election, 1852

The 1852 United Kingdom general election was a watershed in the formation of the modern political parties of Britain.

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United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was established by the Acts of Union 1800, which merged the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Vincenz Priessnitz

Vincenz Priessnitz, also written Prießnitz (sometimes in German Vinzenz, in English Vincent, in Czech Vincenc; 4 October 1799 – 26 November 1851) was a peasant farmer in Gräfenberg, Austrian Silesia, who is generally considered the founder of modern hydrotherapy, which is used in alternative and orthodox medicine.

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Vivian Grey

Vivian Grey is Benjamin Disraeli's first novel, published by Henry Colburn in 1826.

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Vril

The Coming Race is a novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, published anonymously in 1871.

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Westminster Abbey

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of St Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic abbey church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the west of the Palace of Westminster.

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Whigs (British political party)

The Whigs were a political faction and then a political party in the parliaments of England, Scotland, Great Britain, Ireland and the United Kingdom.

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William Henry Fry

For the woodcarver and gilder, see William H. Fry. William Henry Fry (August 10, 1813 – December 21, 1864) was a pioneering American composer, music critic, and journalist.

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William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, (15 March 1779 – 24 November 1848) was a British Whig statesman who served as Home Secretary (1830–1834) and Prime Minister (1834 and 1835–1841).

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William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray (18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863) was a British novelist and author.

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William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington

William Pole-Tylney-Long-Wellesley, 4th Earl of Mornington (22 June 1788 – 1 July 1857) was an Anglo-Irish nobleman notorious for his dissipated lifestyle.

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Wood Dalling

Wood Dalling is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk.

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Zanoni

Zanoni is an 1842 novel by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a story of love and occult aspiration.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Bulwer-Lytton

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