''Ernest Maltravers'' is an 1837 novel by the British writer
Edward Bulwer-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 ...
, originally published in
three volumes. It is
Gothic in style, and features a protagonist combining "
Byronic stature and
Coleridgean philosophical ambition". It was followed by a sequel ''Alice''.
The following year it was adapted into a stage play of the same title by
Louisa Medina, which first appeared on 28 March 1838 at the National Theatre in New York City.
Film versions
In 1914 it was adapted into an American
short silent film
A silent film is a film without synchronized recorded sound (or more generally, no audible dialogue). Though silent films convey narrative and emotion visually, various plot elements (such as a setting or era) or key lines of dialogue may, w ...
''
Ernest Maltravers'' directed by
Travers Vale
Travers Edmund Vale, born Solomon Flohm, was an English-born silent film film director, director. Raised primarily in Victoria (state), Victoria, Australia, he worked as a photographer, playwright and theatre manager there and in New Zealand pri ...
. A further silent film, the British feature-length ''
Ernest Maltravers'' was released in 1920, directed by
Jack Denton
John Fleming St. Andrew Denton (11 September 1872 – 19 April 1949) was a British actor and film director of the silent era.
Denton was born in Ashby-de-la-Zouch, Leicestershire and died at age 76 in Redhill, Surrey.
Selected filmography
Ac ...
and starring
Lillian Hall-Davis
Lillian Hall-Davis (23 June 1898 – 25 October 1933) was an English actress during the silent film era, featured in major roles in English film and a number of German, French and Italian films.
Born Lilian Hall Davis, the daughter of a London ...
.
[Goble p.296]
References
Bibliography
* Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary Sources in Film''. Walter de Gruyter, 1999.
* Graham, Sarah (ed.) ''A History of the Bildungsroman''. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
* Mulvey-Roberts, Marie (ed.)''The Handbook to Gothic Literature''. NYU Press, 1998.
* Rodríguez, Miriam López & María Dolores Narbona Carrión (ed.) ''Women's Contribution to Nineteenth-century American Theatre''. Universitat de València, 28 Nov 2011.
1837 British novels
British Gothic novels
Novels set in England
British novels adapted into films
Novels by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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