A Blighted Life

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A Blighted Life
AuthorRosina Bulwer Lytton
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherLondon Publishing Office
Publication date
1880
Pages132
ISBN1-85506-248-8
OCLC30950164

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.[1][2] This was at a time when men could lock up socially inconvenient female relatives in psychiatric institutions.[3]

References

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  1. ^ Lady Lytton (1880). A Blighted Life. London: The London Publishing Office. Retrieved November 28, 2009. (Online text at wikisource.org)
  2. ^ Devey, Louisa (1887). Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton, with Numerous Extracts from her Ms. Autobiography and Other Original Documents, published in vindication of her memory. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. Retrieved November 28, 2009. Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
  3. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "A BLIGHTED LIFE - a true story|eBook". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2023-09-15.

Further reading

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  • Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. A Blighted Life. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1994. ISBN 1-85506-248-8 (Originally published in 1880 by The London Publishing Office).
  • Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. Cheveley. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005.
  • Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. Shells in the Sands of Time. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1995. ISBN 1-85506-386-7
  • Bulwer Lytton, Edward. Letters of the late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to his wife: With extracts from her MSS. "Autobiography" and other documents. Ed. Louisa Devey. New York: AMS Press, 1976. ISBN 0-404-08884-8
  • Cobbold of Knebworth, David Lytton Cobbold. A Blighted Marriage. Knebworth: The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999. ISBN 0-9537116-1-7
  • Miles, Patricia and Jill Williams. An Uncommon Criminal. Knebworth: Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999.
  • Mulvey-Roberts, Marie and Steve Carpenter, Eds. The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008. ISBN 1-85196-803-2
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