Rhoda Broughton
English novelist
Died when: 79 years 189 days (954 months)Star Sign: Sagittarius
Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer.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.
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