Lytton

[ US /ˈɫɪtən/ ]
NOUN
  1. English writer of historical romances (1803-1873)
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How To Use Lytton In A Sentence

  • Bulwer Lytton calls vril, and the operation of which he has fairly accurately described in his _Coming Race_, that the colleges for the higher training of the youth of Atlantis were specially occupied in developing. The Story of Atlantis and the Lost Lemuria
  • As a consequence we may regard the Pinero incident closed and in ten years his theatre will be considered as old-fashioned and as inadept as that of Robertson or Bulwer-Lytton. The Merry-Go-Round
  • Palmerston, Canning, Castlereagh, Russell, and Brougham, actors such as Kemble and Matthews, artists such as Lawrence and Wilkie, and men of letters such as Moore, Bulwer-Lytton, and the two Famous Affinities of History — Volume 3
  • Disraeli seized the chance to buy a controlling interest in the Suez canal, he sent the flamboyant Lytton to India as viceroy, and his 1876 Royal Titles Act proclaimed Victoria empress of India.
  • In his time, novelist-playwright Bulwer-Lytton was one of England's literary lions, but his reputation did not survive into the 20th century.
  • Members of the Territory Band 3 (see September 22 entry) play in two small-group configurations: The first set features tubaist Per-Ake Holmlander, pianist Jim Baker, reedist Fredrik Ljungkvist, and sound manipulator Kevin Drumm, and the second features drummer Paul Lytton, drummer Paal Nilssen-Love, trombonist Jeb Bishop, and reedist Ken Vandermark. sunday September Chicago Reader
  • While I'm depleting the piscine community, you'll be interested to know that the latest winners of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest have perpetrated their crimes on the reading public and been justly rewarded therefore. Archive 2010-06-01
  • And Lord Lytton, the conservative viceroy whose elaborately choreographed durbar Cannadine interprets as Britain's homage to India's deeply rooted "feudal order" and to the princes who were both its "expression" and its "apogee," explained the ornateness of that ceremony in pragmatic, rather disdainful terms: "The further East you go, the greater becomes the importance of a bit of bunting. A Bit of Bunting
  • Lord Lytton had noted the importance of ‘birth, rank and hereditary influence’ in India and helped create the ornamentalism Cannadine examines.
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