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

\n*Cometh up as a flower - (1867) \n*Not wisely, but too well - (1867)\n*Red as a rose is she - (1870)\n*Good-bye, sweetheart - (1872) \n*The Temple Bar - (1872)\n*Nancy - (1873) \n*Tales for Christmas Eve - (1873)\n*Joan - (1876) \n*Second thoughts - (1880)\n*Belinda - (1883)\n*Doctor Cupid - (1886)\n*Alas - (1890) \n*Mrs. Bligh - (1892)\n*A beginner - (1893) \n*Scylla or Charybdis - (1895)\n*Dear Faustina - (1897)\n*Foes in law - (1899)\n*The game and the candle - (1899) \n*Lavinia - (1902)\n*A waif's progress - (1905)\n*Mamma - (1908)\n*The devil and the deep sea - (1910)\n*Between two stools - (1912)\n*Concerning a vow - (1914) \n*A thorn in the flesh - (1917)\n*A fool in her folly - (1920) Broughton, Rhoda