"The Caxtons: A Family Picture — Volume 01" by Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton is a Victorian novel first serialized in 1848 and published in 1849. The story follows the Caxton family: scholarly Austin working on his great history, his wife Kitty, his brother Roland the Captain, and Austin's son Pisistratus who narrates. When young Pisistratus becomes secretary to a Parliamentary leader, he encounters past family connections and falls into hopeless love, setting events in motion that test the family's bonds and fortunes. (This is an automatically generated summary.)