A Blighted Life
AuthorRosina Bulwer Lytton
LanguageEnglish
GenreBiography
PublisherLondon Publishing Office
Publication date
1880
Pages132
ISBN1-85506-248-8
OCLC30950164

A Blighted Life is an 1880 book by Rosina Bulwer Lytton chronicling the events surrounding her incarceration in a Victorian madhouse by her husband Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton and her subsequent release a few weeks later.[1][2] This was at a time when men could lock up socially inconvenient female relatives in psychiatric institutions.[3]

References

  1. ^ Lady Lytton (1880). A Blighted Life. London: The London Publishing Office. Retrieved November 28, 2009. (Online text at wikisource.org)
  2. ^ Devey, Louisa (1887). Life of Rosina, Lady Lytton, with Numerous Extracts from her Ms. Autobiography and Other Original Documents, published in vindication of her memory. London: Swan Sonnenschein, Lowrey & Co. Retrieved November 28, 2009. Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org)
  3. ^ Noble, Barnes &. "A BLIGHTED LIFE - a true story|eBook". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved 2023-09-15.

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