The great-great-great grandson of the much-maligned author Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton is to take part in a debate to defend his ancestor's writing. The Honourable Henry Lytton Cobbold, of Knebworth ...

When it comes to recognizing good literature, you've got all kinds of prizes - the National Book Award, the Nobel, the Booker. But when it comes to recognizing truly bad writing, there's the ...

One generation’s master is the next generation’s hack. One generation’s classic is the next’s punch-line. Witness the case of Edward George Earle Bulwer, Baron Lytton of Knebworth–or, as he became ...

The English professor sat there thinking, alone on a dark night in 1981, as nights were then and are now even without storms, which are dark too. He pondered how to get students writing more and ...

Even though I ran two columns of top entries in my local version of the international Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest, there were several others that received significant judge support but couldn’t be ...

“Detective Bart Lasiter was in his office studying the light from his one small window falling on his super burrito when the door swung open to reveal a woman whose body said you’ve had your last ...

Bulwer Lytton: The Rise and Fall of a Victorian Man of Letters by Leslie Mitchell 320pp, Hambledon & London, £19.95 There is a long list of eminent Victorians whose names are all but forgotten now: ...

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who died 150 years ago on Thursday, was a highly successful writer in his day. He was also a prominent politician, serving for a time as British colonial secretary. Moreover, his ...