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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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Sophie Veitch
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anthony Trollope
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text Geraldine Jewsbury
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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...

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