A Blighted Life: A True Story

An excerpt from a review by The Literary World, Volume 11,1880:

...Rosina, Lady Bulwer-Lytton, whose alleged and scandalous autobiography has just appeared in England, was a Wheeler, of Limerick, Ireland. Her marriage was unhappy, and she lived with her husband less than ten years. In 1858, more than twenty years after their separation, she followed his speech of thanks at a Hertford hustings, after an election, with a violent harangue against him, in consequence of which she was shut up for a time in a lunatic asylum. Her feelings toward her son, the present Lord Lytton, otherwise known as "Owen Meredith," are said to be quite as bitter. The volume now attributed to her, if authentic, will not be the first production of her pen denunciatory of her husband and her son. A Blighted Life is its title, and its language toward the living and the dead is described as shockingly gross and cruel.