Rhoda Broughton
Rhoda Broughton (November 29, 1840 - June 5, 1920) was a novelist.
Rhoda Broughton was born in Denbigh in north Wales. From an educated and well-to-do family, as a young girl she developed a taste for literature, especially poetry, and was encouraged by her father to pursue a career in writing.
Her uncle, Sheridan le Fanu, was a successful author and he assisted in having her first two novels published in 1867. She would go on to a successful career, writing more than 25 novels plus a large number of short stories.
Her final years were spent at Headington Hill, near Oxford where she died on June 5, 1920.
Partial bibliography
- Cometh up as a flower - (1867)
- Not wisely, but too well - (1867)
- Red as a rose is she - (1870)
- Good-bye, sweetheart! - (1872)
- The Temple Bar - (1872)
- Nancy - (1873)
- Tales for Christmas Eve - (1873)
- Joan - (1876)
- Second thoughts - (1880)
- Belinda - (1883)
- Doctor Cupid - (1886)
- Alas! - (1890)
- Mrs. Bligh - (1892)
- A beginner - (1893)
- Scylla or Charybdis? - (1895)
- Dear Faustina - (1897)
- Foes in law - (1899)
- The game and the candle - (1899)
- Lavinia - (1902)
- A waif's progress - (1905)
- Mamma - (1908)
- The devil and the deep sea - (1910)
- Between two stools - (1912)
- Concerning a vow - (1914)
- A thorn in the flesh - (1917)
- A fool in her folly - (1920)
