Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Rhoda Broughton
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Standard Name: Broughton, Rhoda
Birth Name: Rhoda Broughton
Pseudonym: The Author of Cometh up as a Flower
Beginning as a scandalous sensationalist known for describing with unparalleled frankness
Terry, Reginald Charles. Victorian Popular Fiction, 1860-80. Humanities Press.
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young women falling in love, RB
became, in her later one-volume works, an assured writer of witty tales of English manners. Producing novels and the occasional short story in a fifty-year career which extended well into the twentieth century, she reveals a keen eye for social mores and an ironic treatment of the conventions of romantic love.
This was one of the six-shilling novels published by Stanley Paul
, a series including work by such writers as Rhoda Broughton
, Dorothea Gerard
, and Violet Hunt
. (The same firm issued two-shilling...
MEB
was encouraged to write from an early age, particularly by her mother. She would later recall how when she was eight and had just learned to write, her godfather bought her a beautiful brand...
Publishing
Mary Cholmondeley
MC
's best-known and most controversial novel, Red Pottage, was published by Edward Arnold
.
The University of Alberta
copy of Red Pottage contains a brief inscription from MC
to Rhoda Broughton
.
Colby, Vineta. “’Devoted Amateur’: Mary Cholmondeley and Red Pottage”. Essays in Criticism, Vol.
20
, No. 2, pp. 213-28.
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Friends, Associates
Mary Cholmondeley
According to Percy Lubbock
, MC
and her sisters entertained often and were charming and successful hostesses. Mary was nevertheless said to be a shy and modest woman who, while she found writing tedious, enjoyed...
Publishing
Mary Cholmondeley
Her publisher, Bentley
, had received the manuscript from MC
's friend Rhoda Broughton
. Bentley paid MC
£40 for The Danvers Jewels and £50 for its sequel, Sir Charles Danvers (also published by Bentley...
Publishing
Mary Cholmondeley
MC
produced three more novels following Red Pottage: Moth and Rust (1902, reprinted 1977), Prisoners (Fast Bound in Misery and Iron), 1906, and Notwithstanding, 1913 (published in the United States as After...
In response to a compliment on her writing EMD
replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics.
Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton.
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Highbrow journals at her death were careful not to praise. The Times Literary...
Publishing
Jessie Fothergill
The copyright of the novel initially sold for £40 on 26 March 1877. Two months later, Richard Bentley and Son
recognized its commercial possibilities and drew up a new contract, increasing the price to £200...
Education
Stella Gibbons
SG
learned to read fairly late, but then read voraciously. The glowing Eastern landscapes and brilliant figures
Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury.
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of Disraeli
's Alroy and Thomas Moore
's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...
Intertextuality and Influence
John Oliver Hobbes
Pearl Richards (later JOH
) read widely as a child and adolescent, and her parents' liberal views (and considerable fortune) meant that she could pursue her tastes in both the lending libraries and the less...
HJ
's circle of acquaintance in the world of letters and the theatre was very wide. As well as men of letters such as Edmund Gosse
, it included a great many women writers, among...
Timeline
3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...