Charlotte Whyte-Melville
had been married to military and sporting novelist Major George Whyte-Melville
, who died in 1878. She was a widow when she met Higginson
(then her domestic chaplain, while she was his patroness)...
Intertextuality and Influence
Rhoda Broughton
Somewhat loose in structure, particularly after Kate and Dare Stamer first separate, RB
's first novel is an early example of her ongoing concern with romantic love, particularly in contrast to its representation in most...
Literary responses
Anna Steele
AS
has been largely ignored by readers and critics since her death, and her works remain out of print. Her name occurs in biographies of her more famous relatives, and in 1929 her niece Minna Evangeline Bradhurst
