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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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 .
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	Amy Levy	The novel alludes to two novels by Rhoda Broughton , Cometh Up as a Flower and "Good-bye, Sweetheart!", disparaging these texts and sensation fiction in general. At one point, Judith wonders why clever creatures...
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...
Intertextuality and Influence	John Strange Winter	At the height of her career JSW gave an account of her early development to the memoirist George Bainton . She said she hardly knew how or why she came to be able to write...
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 ...
Intertextuality and Influence	Elizabeth Taylor	ET 's protagonist, a monster of egotism, mentions Rhoda Broughton and Corelli in connection with her own work, but only to suggest that hers is worth yet greater sums of money than theirs. Taylor, Elizabeth, and Paul Bailey. Angel. Virago, 1984. 76 She...
Intertextuality and Influence	Rudyard Kipling	Baa Baa Black Sheep, in the same collection, is a strange, dark tale, based on Kipling's own experience, of how young Punch, aged five, and his sister Judy, three, are taken from India to...
Leisure and Society	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Subscribers to the portrait included Gertrude Bell , Arnold Bennett , Rhoda Broughton , Lucy Clifford , Henry James , Elizabeth Robins , the Tennyson s, Josephine Ward , and Margaret Woods . Gérin, Winifred. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: A Biography. Oxford University Press, 1981. 272-3 Ritchie, Anne Thackeray, and Hester Helen Thackeray Fuller. Letters of Anne Thackeray Ritchie. J. Murray, 1924. 285-7
Literary responses	Q. D. Leavis	Fiction and the Reading Public was widely reviewed. In the Criterion of July 1932, T. S. Eliot commended its argument: A society which does not recognize the existence of art is barbaric. But a society...
Literary responses	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Geraldine Jewsbury in the Athenæum saw considerable promise in the book, but blamed it for verging on a treatment of incest which ought to be . . . inadmissable for a novel. qtd. in Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. 67 The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html. Margaret Oliphant
Literary responses	Anne Thackeray Ritchie	Trollope admired her work alongside that of Rhoda Broughton , though he thought her writing lazy. qtd. in Shankman, Lillian F., and Anne Thackeray Ritchie. “Biographical Commentary and Notes”. Anne Thackeray Ritchie: Journals and Letters, edited by Abigail Burnham Bloom et al., Ohio State University Press, 1994, p. various pages. 164 Robert Louis Stevenson dedicated a poem to her, inciting her to further literary biographies after reading A Book...
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...
Literary responses	Charlotte Yonge	During her lifetime CY was ranked as a serious novelist with Austen , Trollope , Balzac , and Zola . Contemporaries like Louisa Alcott , Margaret Oliphant , Ellen Wood , and Rhoda Broughton made...
Literary responses	Helen Mathers	This novel too was met with accusations of being a mere imitation of others' work. Fraser's even speculated that the author had written it perhaps . . . in sheer contempt for the art which...

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