Broughton was apparently delighted with the positive reception of Red as a Rose is She. It was well reviewed in the Times and the Athenæum, and it proved even more popular with readers...
Literary responses
Emily Spender
The Athenæum reviewer, Almaric Rumsey
, guessed the novelist's gender from the use of the bigamy motif, which he felt to be obviously derivative from more talented novelists (Wilkie Collins
's recently published The...
Literary responses
Eliza Lynn Linton
Reviewing for the Athenæum, Almaric Rumsey
thought this novel had undoubted literary power, but could not bring himself to like it. He felt the tone was too subdued to succeed in rousing or amusing...
Literary responses
Eliza Lynn Linton
Almaric Rumsey
in the Athenæum, though he much preferred this book to ELL
's previous one (partly because he found it less bleak), evinced a certain amount of resistance to its gender attitudes. He...
