Lytton
Lytton names 2 different subjects across the 6 encyclopedias on this shelf. Each is set out below.
Lytton EDWARD ROBERT, EARL OF
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD ROBERT, EARL OF, pseudonym OWEN MEREDITH, an English poet, diplomatist, and statesman; born in London, England, Nov. 8, 1831. He was educated at Harrow and at Bonn. In 1849 he went to Washington as an attaché and private secretary to his uncle, Sir Henry Bulwer; and subsequently he was appointed attaché, secretary legation, consul or chargé d'affaires at most of the large capitals of Europe. In 1873 he succeeded his father as second Lord Lytton, and in became minister at Lisbon, and in 1876 Viceroy of India. In 1880, on the 1874 fall of the Beaconsfield government, he resigned, and, returning to England, was made Earl of Lyt Lytton; in 1887 he was sent by Lord Salisbury as ambassador to Paris. His works, published mostly under his pseudonym, include "Clytemnestra" (1855), a dramatic poem; "Lucile" (1860), a novel in verse; "Orval, or the Fool of Times" (1869); "Fables in Song" (1874); "Glenaveril" (2 vols. 1885), an epic of modern life; and "After Paradise, or Legends of Exile" (1887). He died in Paris, France, Nov. 24, 1891. M M, m, the 13th letter and the 10th consonant of the English alphabet, classed among the liquids. M has but one sound in English, as in man, much, time. It is always sounded in native English words, but is silent in some few words, as mnemonic, which are derived from other languages. M has been lost from some of the oldest English words. As a symbol M is used: In numerals: For 1,000; with a dash over it for 1,000,000.
Lytton EDWARD, LORD LYTTON
Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)
EDWARD, LORD LYTTON. See BULWER-LYTTON.
What Has Changed in the Last Century
Collier's in 1921 lists Robert Bulwer-Lytton's viceroyalty of India (1876-80) as a line in a diplomatic career and dwells on verse like "Lucile" and "Glenaveril"; almost none of that poetry is still read, and his name now attaches instead to what the entry omits. His years in India covered the famine of 1876-78, in which several million people died and his adherence to free-trade non-interference and to the lavish 1877 Delhi Durbar proclaiming Victoria Empress of India drew lasting criticism, as did the Vernacular Press Act of 1878 and the Second Anglo-Afghan War begun the same year. The family stayed prominent after 1921: his daughter Constance Lytton was a militant suffragette, and his son Victor, the 2nd Earl, chaired the League of Nations commission whose 1932 Lytton Report condemned Japan's seizure of Manchuria. His father Edward, the novelist cross-referenced here under Bulwer-Lytton, survives chiefly as the author of "It was a dark and stormy night" and the namesake of a bad-writing contest founded in 1982.
Written for this edition, 2026.