Ethel M. Arnold

One of MAW 's younger sisters became the writer, lecturer, and photographer Ethel Arnold . Another, Julia , who was eleven years younger than Mary Augusta, was an early graduate of Somerville College, Oxford ...

The Times obituary (which was accompanied by an editorial) commented that Broughton herself was more entertaining than her novels, filling her social role far more brilliantly than any of her Joans or Nancies or Belindas...

RB was fond of dogs, and in her Oxford days was known for her habit of striding about the town followed by at least two (and usually more) pugdogs.Ethel Arnold recalled a pug...

The Times marked RB 's death with an editorial asserting her permanent value as a novelist, as well as with an obituary. The former commented that Broughton had made a sound...

It was revised, expanded, and then issued in two volumes by 20 April 1867 (several months before the earlier-written novel). It reached a second edition late that year. A scholarly edition by Pamela K. Gilbert

Her friend Ethel Arnold reported that Second Thoughts was RB 's own favourite among her works. She wrote it while another friend, Adelaide Kemble , was dying, and would read Kemble chapters at her bedside...

RB , who published almost exclusively with Bentley throughout her career, preferred to receive a lump sum for her novels rather than to rely on royalites and copyright earnings. In her reminiscence Ethel Arnold suggests...