“The true spirit of conversation consists more in bringing out the cleverness of others than in showing a great deal of it yourself.”
About Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton
8 November 1831–24 November 1891
The Victorian era produced many remarkable figures who straddled the worlds of literature and public service, but few navigated this dual existence with quite the complexity of Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831-1891), better known to the literary world by his pen name Owen Meredith. Born into…