Author. She was a 19th-century Anglo-Irish author who was the wife of Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer, 1st Baron Lytton of Knebworth. During her career, she published fourteen novels, a volume of essays, and a volume of letters. Born the younger of the two daughters of Francis Massy Wheeler, a landlord and an alcohol abuser, and his wife, Anna Doyle, who gained a reputation as a feminist philosopher, she had a number of siblings who did not live to adulthood. When she was nearly ten, her mother deserted her father, taking her sister Henrietta, to Guernsey, where her great-uncle, General Sir John Doyle, was the Governor. As a child, she was the student of Frances Arabella Rowden, who had a number of students that became well-known authors. She had other tutors before attending a boarding school in London. She grew into a beautiful lady full of wit. After meeting in December of 1825, she married Edward George Earle Lytton-Bulwer in London on August 29, 1827. At first, she loved being a hostess to their social events. Her mother-in-law disapproved of the marriage, stopping her husband's allowance and forcing him to develop his writing career for an income. Their marriage became stormy according to sources as her husband had a violent temper, a driven focus on his writing, and had extramarital affairs. With no improvement in their marriage, they traveled to Italy in 1833 returning to England in 1834. Following the birth of a daughter and a son, they were legally separated on April 19, 1836. At that point, she and the children settled in Ireland. In retaliation of her husband's actions, including infidelities, she published a satirical novel, "Cheveley or The Man of Honor," in 1839. For this very public humiliation, her husband denied her access to the children, bullied her English publisher, withheld her only income and even had her committed in 1858 to a mental asylum, but she was released in three weeks with the public's outcry. At the beginning of this long ordeal, her daughter was eleven-years-old and her son was eight-years old. From the experiences in the asylum, she authored a 139-page book, "Blighted Life," which also chronicled the events surrounding her being admitted to a madhouse. After the years-long separation from her children, she reunited with her daughter, shortly before her daughter's death from typhoid fever in 1848. She reunited with her son shortly before her own death in 1882, yet upon her husband's death and her son inheriting the grand estate in 1873, her son did increase her allowance. She moved to Paris and continued to write semi-autobiography novels but none were as popular as her first two. She returned to England in 1847. In June of 1858 she traveled to Hereford on the day of her husband's election as a local MP, denouncing him at a public meeting. For this action, her husband had her incarcerated in a "madhouse," which was a common practice by husbands in Victorian England to control their wives, who were being "socially inconvenient". Voicing the disapproval of her husband's actions for the rest of her life, she became a recluse later in life until her death. While her husband was laid to rest in Westminister Abbey, she was buried in an unmarked grave from 1882 until it marked in 1995. Showing her youthful beauty, her portrait was painted by A. E. Chalon in 1832.