An author with this surname wrote about a countess who learns of Alfred Vargrave’s engagement to Miss Darcy in a verse novel that was accused of being a plagiarized version of George Sand’s Lavinia. Oscar Wilde’s Lady Windermere’s Fan was dedicated to “the dear memory” of that author with this surname, who wrote Lucile under the pen name Owen Meredith. A Karl Bryullov painting inspired another author with this surname to write a novel about the love between Ione (“eye-OH-nee”) and Glaucus in the title city. In another novel by that author with this surname, the title gentleman is arrested for highway robbery, but finds out at the trial that Judge Brandon is his father. That author with this surname inspired the Wagner opera Rienzi and wrote The Last Days of Pompeii. For 10 points, give this surname of the author who began his novel Paul Clifford with the phrase “It was a dark and stormy night.” ■END■
ANSWER: Bulwer-Lytton [or Bulwer-Lytton; accept Robert Bulwer-Lytton; accept Lord Lytton; accept Edward Bulwer or Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer; prompt on Owen Meredith until read]
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