A Fool in Her Folly (which is strongly reminiscent of A Beginner, 1894) features a twenty-year-old protagonist who begins to write in secret, inspired by Guy Livingstone (by George Alfred Lawrence
, to whom...
Literary responses
Rhoda Broughton
Many years after its publication RB
described Not Wisely, but Too Well as crude and vulgar and marred by that impropriety which is so often the fault of very young writers.
qtd. in
Arnold, Ethel. “Rhoda Broughton as I Knew Her”. Fortnightly Review, Vol.