Born Rosina Doyle Wheeler, Rosina Bulwer Lytton garners at least as much attention for her tumultuous biography as for her prolific writing. She married Edward Bulwer-Lytton, but the couple divorced following scandals around the husband's infidelities, which Rosina Lytton satirized in her first novel, Cheveley: or, The Man of Honour (1839). Her children were taken from her in consequence of the divorce, and, determined to disrupt her ex-husband's life and political aspirations, she continued to denounce him during a campaign for a seat in Parliament. For that, he had her incarcerated as insane, an ordeal that she chronicles in A Blighted Life (1880). Her other novels include: The Budget of the Bubble Family (1840); The Prince-Duke and the Page: An Historical Novel (1843); Bianca Cappello: An Historical Romance (1844); Memoirs of a Muscovite (1844); The Peer's Daughters: A Novel (1849); Miriam Sedley, or the Tares and the Wheat: A Tale of Real Life (1850); The School for Husbands: or Moliére's Life and Times (1852); Behind the Scenes, A Novel (1854); The World and His Wife, or a Person of Consequence, a Photographic Novel (1858); Very Successful (1859); The Household Fairy (1870); Where there's a Will there's a Way (1871); Chumber Chase (1871); Mauleverer's Divorce (1871); Shells from the Sands of Time (1876); and Refutation of an Audacious Forgery of the Dowager Lady's name to a book of the Publication of which she was totally Ignorant (1880).