A Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness 1802-1882 creator text utu 2025 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "A blighted life : A true story" by Baroness Rosina Bulwer Lytton Lytton is an autobiographical memoir written in the late 19th century. It presents the author’s searing account of long-term marital persecution by the celebrated novelist-statesman Edward Bulwer-Lytton and her battle against wrongful incarceration under England’s lunacy laws. Fiercely polemical, it combines personal testimony with a broader indictment of legal, political, and literary elites she believes enabled the abuse. The opening of this memoir sets the stage with an editor’s preface that hails the narrative as a true record of persecution, denounces the lunacy laws, and frames the story against a backdrop of public outrage and establishment complicity, while noting included portraits of the key figures. Rosina then writes in her own voice—addressing a novelist seeking accounts of asylum abuses—declaring she wants no help as she catalogs a system of spies, smears, and legal traps allegedly deployed by her husband: planted libels, attempted entrapments at Llangollen (including a suspected poisoning and “Miss G—” with a decoy dog), collusion via local post and publicans, and harassment by disreputable agents. She recounts a failed legal ruse involving “Mrs. S—LL—,” the disappearance of papers sent to a senior law lord, and the withholding of her allowance. The sequence culminates in her dramatic public confrontation at the Hertford hustings, her husband’s flight from the platform, and, immediately after, an abortive attempt by a doctor and asylum keeper to have her certified insane—foiled, she says, by her composure—followed by a fruitless request that she name terms for peace. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Blighted_Life Release date is 2025-07-01 The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: London: The London Publishing Office, 1880 Authors, English -- 19th century -- Biography Women and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century Lytton, Rosina Bulwer Lytton, Baroness, 1802-1882 PR London: The London Publishing Office, 1880 https://archive.org/details/blightedlifetrue00lytt/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76426 https://archive.org/details/blightedlifetrue00lytt/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76426 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134753.0 76426