A Blighted Life

A Blighted Life

Author	Rosina Bulwer Lytton
Language	English
Genre	Biography
Publisher	London Publishing Office
Publication date	1880
Pages	132
ISBN	1-85506-248-8
OCLC	30950164

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

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

• 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

External links

• The full text of A Blighted Life at Wikisource