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Rhoda Broughton Biography |
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) |
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