[ Bulwer-Lytton / My Novel ]
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.