He was especially influenced by the works of Sir Walter Scott and Lord Byron. While at school Lytton continued his love of reading and writing. "Pray, Mama, are you not sometimes overcome by the sense of your own identity?", she decided it was time her intelligent son was sent to formal schooling. Edward spent a year voraciously reading everything from chivalric romances to scholarly works. He began writing poetry by age seven, at which time the family inherited his His father died when Edward was four, and his education fell to his mother, who had already taught Edward to read.
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The patient so accidentally met with became the founder of my professional fortunes. It was during a short holiday excursion, from which he was about to return with renovated vigour, that he had been thus stricken down. The traveller proved to be Julius Faber, a physician of great distinction, contented to reside, where he was born, in the provincial city of L-, but whose reputation as a profound and original pathologist was widely spread, and whose writings had formed no unimportant part of my special studies. I devoted myself to him night and day and, perhaps more through careful nursing than active remedies, I had the happiness to effect his complete recovery. In passing through the Tyro, on my way into the north of Italy, I found in a small inn, remote from medical attendance, an English traveller seized with acute inflammation of the lungs, and in a state of imminent danger.
But before this preparatory tour was completed, my resolve was changed by one of those unexpected events which determine the fate man in vain would work out for himself. I had resolved to fix my ultimate residence in London. On becoming a member of the College of Physicians, I made a tour of the principal cities of Europe, taking letters of introduction to eminent medical men, and gathering from many theories and modes of treatment hints to enlarge the foundations of unprejudiced and comprehensive’ practice. I had studied at Edinburgh and at Paris, and had borne away from both those illustrious schools of medicine whatever guarantees for future distinction the praise of professors may concede to the ambition of students. I was yet young, but I had acquired some reputation by a professional work, which is, I believe, still amongst the received authorities on the subject of which it treats.
In the year 18– I settled as a physician at one of the wealthiest of our great English towns, which I will designate by the initial L.