Lucile

xiii, 263 pp. Six pages of publisher ads follow text. Page ridges gilt. Illustrated. "Owen Meredith is a pseudonym for Edward Robert Bulwer, First Earl of Lytton. LUCILE was his best known work, written in a combination of verse and dramatic play formats. Lucile was a verse novel written by Robert Bulwer-Lytton writing under the pen name Owen Meredith, and published in 1860. The poem is a narrative told in an anapaest meter. It was Meredith's most popular work, achieving wide popularity in the 19th century, despite accusations of plagiarism involving elements of an 1831 George Sand novella, Lavinia."