Rhoda Broughton, Welsh-English author (born 1840)

Rhoda Broughton

Welsh novelist and short story writer (1840-1920)

Rhoda Broughton 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)…