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''A Blighted Life'' is an 1880 book by
Rosina Bulwer Lytton Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness Lytton, (née Doyle Wheeler; 4 November 1802 – 12 March 1882) was an Anglo-Irish writer who published fourteen novels, a volume of essays, and a volume of letters. In 1827, she married Edward Bulwer-Lytton, a no ...
chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (; 25 May 1803 – 18 January 1873) was an English writer and politician. He served as a Whig member of Parliament from 1831 to 1841 and a Conservative from 1851 to 1866. He was Secr ...
and her subsequent release a few weeks later. (Online text at wikisource.org) Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org) This was at a time when men could lock up socially inconvenient female relatives in psychiatric institutions.


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Further reading

*Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. ''A Blighted Life''. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1994. (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. *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. *Cobbold of Knebworth, David Lytton Cobbold. ''A Blighted Marriage''. Knebworth: The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999. *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.


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* 1880 non-fiction books Psychology-related autobiographies Books about psychiatric hospitals Memoirs of imprisonment Edward Bulwer-Lytton {{lit-bio-book-stub