WorkEdward Bulwer-Lytton
The Last Days of Pompeii (London: Bentley, 1834)
Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803–1873) · London: Bentley, 1834
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Documented 1834–1846
Letters • Books • Journals
Selected engagements, in chronological order.
Reprints, Memoirs passages, and repeat notes within a single manuscript are shown but never counted twice. Evidence for this work is selective, not exhaustive. Methodology →
“Have you read his Pompeii or dont you read his works now?”
Fuller, Margaret. "To Frederic H. Hedge, 30 November 1834." In The Letters of Margaret Fuller, Vol. I: 1817–1838, edited by Robert N. Hudspeth, 212–215. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.
“Nydia's love-song. E. L. Bulwer. / 1. / The Wind and the Beam loved the Rose / And the Rose loved one; / For who recks the wind where it blows? / Or loves not the sun / 2.”
Fuller, Margaret. "Journal April 1839." Houghton Library, Harvard University; bMS Am 1086 (Box A); Box 5 (99).
The poem is transcribed in full across four stanzas, exactly matching the novel's text.
“The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made.”
Fuller, Margaret. Papers on Literature and Art. New York: Wiley and Putnam, 1846. · p153
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Also printed in Art, Literature, and the Drama (1869), p153; page given is to the 1869 reprint.