Rhoda Broughton | |
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 Rhoda Broughton c. 1870 | |
| Born | 29 November 1840 Denbigh, Wales |
| Died | 5 June 1920 (aged 79) Headington Hill, Oxfordshire, England |
| Occupation | Author |
| Years active | 1867–1920 |
Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer.[1] Her early novels earned a reputation for sensationalism, so that her later, stronger work tended to be neglected by critics, although she was called a queen of the circulating libraries. Her novel Dear Faustina (1897) has been noted for its homoeroticism. Her novel Lavinia (1902) depicts a seemingly "unmanly" young man, who wishes he had been born as a woman. Broughton descended from the Broughton baronets, as a granddaughter of the 8th baronet. She was a niece of Sheridan le Fanu, who helped her to start her literary career. She was a long-time friend of fellow writer Henry James and was noted for her adversarial relationship with both Lewis Carroll and Oscar Wilde.
- ^ Robert Hadji, "Rhoda Broughton" in Jack Sullivan (ed) (1986) The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural Viking Press, 1986, ISBN 0-670-80902-0, p. 285.