Rhoda Broughton

Rhoda Broughton

November 29, 1840 – June 05, 1920
Place of Birth: Denbigh, North Wales
Place of Death: Headington Hill, Oxfordshire

Rhoda Broughton (29 November 1840 – 5 June 1920) was a Welsh novelist and short story writer. Her early novels earned her a reputation for sensationalism which caused her later and stronger work to be neglected by serious critics, though she was described as a queen of the circulating libraries.