Rhoda Broughton

29 November 1840 - 05 June 1920

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, 1983.

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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.

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Connections

Connections	Author name Sort descending	Excerpt
Friends, Associates	Ethel M. Arnold	EA, with her sister Julia , was one of Lewis Carroll ’s child-friends. He helped her through a difficult childhood and the death of her mother, and she remembered him fondly in later years. Carroll...
Intertextuality and Influence	Ethel M. Arnold	The novelist Rhoda Broughton was an early supporter of and influence on EA's writing. She helped EA place two early short stories, Mrs Verrinder (1886) and Edged Tools (1887) in Temple Bar through her publisher ...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	Ethel M. Arnold	EA ’s strength as a writer was in her faculty for criticism. Some of the more prominent novels she reviewed for the Manchester Guardian include George Meredith ’s The Amazing Marriage and Henry James ’s...
Friends, Associates	Matthew Arnold	MA was acquainted with Charlotte Brontë and wrote a poem dedicated to her following her death. He also knew Rhoda Broughton , Emily Davies , and Harriet Martineau .
Textual Production	Hélène Barcynska	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...
Friends, Associates	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	The Maxwells had frequent house guests and entertained regularly at both their houses. Later friends and acquaintances included Robert Browning , Mary Cholmondeley , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Ford Madox Ford , Thomas Hardy
Intertextuality and Influence	Mary Elizabeth Braddon	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, Apr. 1970, pp. 213-28. 214
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text	E. M. Delafield	The study looks at Victorian social mores as seen by women writers such as Rhoda Broughton , Elizabeth Sewell , Grace Aguilar , Elizabeth Wetherell , and EMD 's particular favourite, Charlotte Mary Yonge ...
Literary responses	Ethel M. Dell	In response to a compliment on her writing EMD replied, they are not well written and will never be called classics. qtd. in Dell, Penelope. Nettie and Sissie. Hamish Hamilton, 1977. 129 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 qtd. in Oliver, Reggie. Out of the Woodshed: A Portrait of Stella Gibbons. Bloomsbury, 1998. 20 of Disraeli 's Alroy and Thomas Moore 's Lalla Rookh made a particular impression. She also developed...

Timeline

3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - 1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Richard Bentley, 1794-1871

1879

Emily Francis Pattison (later Emilia Dilke) published (as E. F. S. Pattison) The Renaissance of Art in France.

Israel, Kali. Names and Stories: Emilia Dilke and Victorian Culture. Oxford University Press, 1999.

1898

The publishing firm of Richard Bentley and Son , dating from 1 September 1832, was sold for eight thousand pounds to Macmillan .

Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.

under Macmillan family

Texts

Broughton, Rhoda. "Good-bye, Sweetheart!". Richard Bentley, 1872, 3 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. B. Tauchnitz, 1894.

Broughton, Rhoda. A Beginner. Richard Bentley and Son, 1894.

Broughton, Rhoda, and Marie Belloc Lowndes. A Fool in Her Folly. Odhams, 1920.

Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda. Belford, Clarke, 1883.

Broughton, Rhoda. Belinda. Richard Bentley and Son, 1883, 3 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Cometh Up as a Flower. Richard Bentley, 1867, 2 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Dear Faustina. Richard Bentley and Son, 1897.

Broughton, Rhoda. Foes in Law. Macmillan, 1900.

Broughton, Rhoda. Mrs. Bligh. Richard Bentley and Son, 1892.

Broughton, Rhoda. Nancy. Richard Bentley and Son, 1873, 3 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Not Wisely, but Too Well. B. Tauchnitz, 1867, 2 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Not Wisely, but Too Well. Tinsley, 1867, 3 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Red as a Rose is She. Richard Bentley, 1870, 3 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Red as a Rose is She. D. Appleton, 1872.

Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. Richard Bentley and Son, 1880, 2 vols.

Broughton, Rhoda. Second Thoughts. Macmillan, 1899.

Broughton, Rhoda. The Devil and the Deep Sea. Macmillan, 1910.