The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer-Lytton

In 1858 he entered Lord Derby's government as Secretary of State for the Colonies. The Victorian era was filled with many magazines and periodicals all of whom had a great fascination to chronicle and publish the many things that the Empire and Industrial Revolution were discovering, inventing and changing. In 1841, he started the Monthly Chronicle, a semi-scientific magazine. Bulwer-Lytton reached, perhaps, the height of his popularity with the publication of Godolphin (1833), followed by The Pilgrims of the Rhine (1834), The Last Days of Pompeii (1834), Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes (1835), and Harold, the Last of the Saxons (1848). The books intricate plot and humorous, intimate portrayals kept many a gossip busy trying to pair up public figures with characters in the book. In 1828 his novel, Pelham, brought him an income, as well as a commercial and critical reputation. During his career he was to be extremely prolific and write across a number of genres historical fiction, mystery, romance, the occult, and science fiction as well as poetry. degree and printed, for private circulation, the small volume of poems, Weeds and Wild Flowers. In 1822 he entered university at Cambridge and in 1825 he won the Chancellor's Gold Medal for English verse for Sculpture. However, he was academically and creatively precocious and, as a teenager, he published his first work Ishmael and Other Poems in 1820.

As a child he was delicate and neurotic and failed to fit in at any number of boarding schools. When Edward was four his father died and his mother moved the family to London. Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on May 25th, 1803 the youngest of three sons.

The Pilgrims of the Rhine by Edward Bulwer-Lytton