Rhoda Broughton Books In Order

Novels

  1. Not Too Wisely But Too Well (1867)
  2. Red As a Rose Is She (1870)
  3. Good-Bye, Sweetheart! (1872)
  4. Nancy (1873)
  5. Joan (1876)
  6. Second Thoughts (1880)
  7. Belinda (1883)
  8. Doctor Cupid (1886)
  9. Alas! (1890)
  10. Mrs. Bligh (1892)
  11. A Beginner (1893)
  12. Scylla or Charybdis? (1895)
  13. Dear Faustina (1897)
  14. Foes in Law (1899)
  15. The Game and the Candle (1899)
  16. Lavinia (1902)
  17. A Waif’s Progress (1905)
  18. Mamma (1908)
  19. A Fool in Her Folly (1920)

Collections

  1. Twilight Stories (1873)
  2. Rhoda Broughton’s Ghost Stories (1995)

Chapbooks

  1. Behold It Was a Dream (2004)

Non fiction

  1. Cometh Up As a Flower (1867)

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Not Too Wisely But Too Well

This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from GeneralBooksClub. com. You can also preview excerpts from the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: Richard Bentley and Son in 1879 in 408 pages; Subjects: Fiction / Classics; Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Mystery & Detective / Traditional British; Fiction / Romance / General; Fiction / Romance / Contemporary; Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Social Science / Women’s Studies;

Red As a Rose Is She

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Good-Bye, Sweetheart!

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Nancy

A few years ago when we were little, people used to say that we were quite a pretty sight, like little steps one above another. We are big steps now, and no one any longer hazards the suggestion of our being pretty. On the other hand, nobody denies that we are each as well furnished with legs, arms, and other etceteras, as our neighbors, nor can affirm that we are notably more deficient in wits than those of our friends who have arrived in twos and threes.

Second Thoughts

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Belinda

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Alas!

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Mrs. Bligh

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A Beginner

Rhoda Broughton 1840 1920 was a novelist. During her lifetime she was one of the Queens of the Circulating Libraries. She developed a taste for literature, especially poetry, as a young girl. Her first two novels appeared in 1867 in Dublin University Magazine. By 1890 she had published 14 novels over a period of 30 years in Bentley publishing house. She never got rid of the reputation of creating fast hero*ines with easy morals, which was true enough for her early novels, and thus suffered from the idea of her work being merely slight and sensational. Very often Broughton’s women are strong characters and with them she manages to subvert traditional images of femininity. This culminates in A Waif’s Progress 1905, in which Broughton creates a married couple who turns everything traditional upside down and the wife fulfills the stereotypes of an older, rich husband. Her other works include Cometh Up as a Flower 1867, Nancy 1873, Doctor Cupid 1886 and A Beginner 1893. In A Beginner, Broughton devices a young writer who has her work secretly published and then later torn apart by unknowing people right in front of her face. The novel deals with the moral issues of writing and whether it is appropriate for a young woman to write romantic or even erotic fiction.

Foes in Law

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Twilight Stories

Rhoda Broughton 1840 1920 was a novelist. During her lifetime she was one of the Queens of the Circulating Libraries. She developed a taste for literature, especially poetry, as a young girl. Her first two novels appeared in 1867 in Dublin University Magazine. By 1890 she had published 14 novels over a period of 30 years in Bentley publishing house. She never got rid of the reputation of creating fast hero*ines with easy morals, which was true enough for her early novels, and thus suffered from the idea of her work being merely slight and sensational. Very often Broughton’s women are strong characters and with them she manages to subvert traditional images of femininity. This culminates in A Waif’s Progress 1905, in which Broughton creates a married couple who turns everything traditional upside down and the wife fulfills the stereotypes of an older, rich husband. Her other works include Cometh Up as a Flower 1867, Nancy 1873, Doctor Cupid 1886 and A Beginner 1893.

Behold It Was a Dream

‘It certainly was an exceptionally dreadful dream,’ says Jane, whose colour has returned, and who is a good deal fortified and reassured by the influences of breakfast and of her husband’s scepticism; for a condensed and shortened version of my dream has been told to him, and he has easily laughed it to scorn. ‘Exceptionally dreadful, chiefly from its extreme consistency and precision of detail.

Cometh Up As a Flower

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million books. com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: the Duchess of A.’s at home ? or dear Lady B.’s ball 1 I who had never to iry knowledge set eyes upon a duchess, and whose sole experience of balls was derived from the inglorious Infirmary Ball of our little county town. However, I looked with unshaken faith to the coming of the gentlemen for bettering my condition, and better it that coming certainly did. If I had expected, indeed, that my large new friend would make any demonstrations in my favour, I was disappointed. He betook himself straightway to the piano, where a brilliant little brunette was trilling airy French songs in a voice like a bird’s ; there he stood with his back against the wall, now and then Waning forward to whisper two or three words into the pretty musician’s ear, words that made the dark eyes sparkle more brightly than before. I felt an insane desire to sing too; I could sing; it was the one accomplishment I possessed, but nobody requested the pleasure of hearing me warble; so I sat chafing, with my talent hid in a napkin. Then a quartett of old fogies sat down to whist, and dealt, and shuffled, and abused their cards, and quarrelled with their partners, as irascible old gentlemen will; and other bald heads got into groups, and bragged about their short horns to their hearts’ content. And gradually the younger men sought out such women as seemed good in their eyes, and sat into their pockets, to the satisfaction of both parties; even dowdy I found favour in somebody’s eyes. Two or three men came and were introduced to me, andI attributed their notice to a praiseworthy feeling of compassion, having too unaffected a belief in my own ugliness to attribute it to any other motive. I tired my neck somewhat craning up at them as they stood blacklegged around me, and they were very civil one of them indeed,…

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