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Welsh novelist Rhoda Broughton (1840–1920) was the daughter of Jane (neé Bennett) and clergyman Delves Broughton. She was educated in classical and modern languages and literature. Her novels explored and challenged gendered double standards regarding sexuality and desire.

Born on 29 November 1840 to Jane (neé Bennett) and the clergyman Delves Broughton at Segrwyd Hall near Denbigh, North Wales, Rhoda Broughton spend her youth in the stately Elizabethan family manor, Broughton Hall, near Eccleshall. The death of her parents forced her to move in with her sisters in Surbiton in 1863, and when her sister Eleanor married William Charles Newcome the following year, Rhoda made house with them in Ruthin, Denbighshire. She and Eleanor would live together for more than 30 years.

As the daughter of a squarson, Broughton’s upbringing was rigid in religious and moral terms and included a thorough education in Latin and Greek, as well as various European languages and literatures....

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  1. University of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

    Felipe Espinoza Garrido

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Espinoza Garrido, F. (2019). Broughton, Rhoda. In: The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Victorian Women's Writing. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-02721-6_130-1

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