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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)