 The young Villiers had a long parliamentary career, while Cockburn became Lord Chief Justice of England in 1859.Bulwer-Lytton reached his height of popularity with the publication of "Godolphin" (1833).This was followed by "The Pilgrims of the Rhine" (1834), "The Last Days of Pompeii" (1834), "Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes" (1835), "Leila; or, The Siege of Granada" (1838), and "Harold, the Last of the Saxons" (1848).