A Blighted Life

''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. (Online text at wikisource.org) Full text at Internet Archive (archive.org) This was at a time when men could lock up socially inconvenient female relatives in psychiatric institutions.

References

Further reading

*Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. ''A Blighted Life''. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1994. (Originally published in 1880 by The London Publishing Office).
*Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. ''Cheveley''. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2005.
*Bulwer Lytton, Rosina. ''Shells in the Sands of Time''. Ed. Marie Mulvey-Roberts. Bristol, England: Thoemmes Press, 1995.
*Bulwer Lytton, Edward. ''Letters of the late Edward Bulwer, Lord Lytton, to his wife: With extracts from her MSS. "Autobiography" and other documents''. Ed. Louisa Devey. New York: AMS Press, 1976.
*Cobbold of Knebworth, David Lytton Cobbold. ''A Blighted Marriage''. Knebworth: The Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999.
*Miles, Patricia and Jill Williams. ''An Uncommon Criminal''. Knebworth: Knebworth House Education and Preservation Trust, 1999.
*Mulvey-Roberts, Marie and Steve Carpenter, Eds. ''The Collected Letters of Rosina Bulwer Lytton''. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2008.

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1880 non-fiction books
Psychology-related autobiographies
Books about psychiatric hospitals
Memoirs of imprisonment
Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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