Rhoda Broughton

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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.
Photo of Rhoda Broughton standing very upright, facing a 3/4 turn away from the camera towards our right. She is wearing a long black, quilted dress and a white cap.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
GJ 's personal preferences are evident in the favour she showed to works with strong moral messages. She disliked sensation novels and was equally disapproving of detailed descriptions of physical romantic exchanges between characters. For...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Marie Belloc Lowndes
Out of her multitudinous acquaintance with writers, she selected about half a dozen to write about in detail. Women among these were Elizabeth of the German Garden and dear Rhoda [Broughton].
Lowndes, Marie Belloc. Diaries and Letters of Marie Belloc Lowndes, 1911-1947. Editor Marques, Susan Lowndes, Chatto and Windus, 1971.
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But a...
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 ...

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