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Edward Bulwer-Lytton

2 stories mention Edward Bulwer-Lytton on DeadlyCurious.

The Footnote June 26, 2026 · New Burlington Street, London

The Early-Victorian Publisher Who Backed Polidori and Mary Shelley and Went Bankrupt Twice

Henry Colburn was the dominant London publisher of fashionable fiction in the 1820s and 1830s. He published John Polidori's *The Vampyre*, Mary Shelley's *The Last Man*, Benjamin Disraeli's first novel, and most of the early-Victorian "silver-fork" society fiction. He was bankrupt in 1832, recovered, and was bankrupt again in 1853.

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The Footnote June 24, 2026 · New Burlington Street, London

The London Publisher Who Took Mary Shelley's Plague Novel After Everyone Else Refused It

Henry Colburn was the early-19th-century London publisher who specialised in commercially difficult books — silver-fork novels, exiled-author memoirs, controversial political diaries. He published Mary Shelley's *The Last Man* in 1826 when no other London house would touch it, serialised Disraeli's early novels, and went bankrupt twice while doing so.

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