Rhoda Broughton 

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 Headlington 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)