Edward Bulwer-Lytton - Paul Clifford: "The easiest person...
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Edward George Earle Bulwer-Lytton was born on May 25th, 1803 the youngest of three sons. When Edward was four his father died and his mother moved the family to London. As a child he was delicate and neurotic and failed to fit in at any number of boarding schools. However, he was academically and creatively precocious and, as a teenager, he published his first work, Ishmael and Other Poems in 1820. In 1822 he entered university at Cambridge an...