[ Bulwer-Lytton / My Novel ]
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803 – 1873) was one of the more prominent English writers of the 19th Century, producing plays, poems, and short fiction, though he was best known for his novels. He also had a significant political career. Very popular in his time, Bulwer-Lytton is probably best known now for beginning one of his novels with the sentence "It was a dark and stormy night," which inspired the creation of the annual — and now defunct, sadly — Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest for the worst opening sentence of a novel — a sentence which a certain cartoon beagle was known to use in his novels.
In Chapter 4 of My Novel occurs the following:
"'Allons! my friend Nero; now for a stroll.' He touched with his cane a large Newfoundland dog, who lay stretched near his feet, and dog and man went slow through the growing twilight, and over the brown dry turf."
("Allons!" is French for "let's go!" or "Come on!")
Bulwer-Lytton also mentions a Newfoundland in his novel Alice.
For a brief discussion of Bulwer-Lytton and his own Newfoundland, check out this page here at The Cultured Newf.