Rhoda Broughton - all her novels
May 22, 2017 2:44:18 GMT -5
Post by Uncle Henry on May 22, 2017 2:44:18 GMT -5
In this posting we present all twenty-five of Rhoda Broughton's full-length novels. Our intention is to include, where possible, djvu versions of the first editions. Wherever such is unavailable the closest available alternative is provided. A suitable djvu reader may be down-loaded here: www.cuminas.jp/en/downloads/download/?pid=1
01 Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867, three volumes)
RB01
02 Cometh Up as a Flower (1867, two volumes)
RB02
This, her long and affecting second novel, - very different from her later novels, and not an autobiography at all - is about a bright young girl. It is disfigured by one astonishing paragraph of (admitted) crude invective against Jews.
03 Red as a Rose is She (1870)
RB03
04 Good-bye, Sweetheart! (1872, three volumes)
RB04
Very good psychologically. About a wilful girl who stamps. Long and interesting descriptions of tourism in 1870 France and Switzerland. (Pontresina is much the same to-day.)
05 Nancy (1873, three volumes)
RB05
Long ladies' novel about truth and the unconscious. The conversation and behaviour of the young man Musgrave are particularly striking.
06 Joan (1876, three volumes)
RB06
A good but lonely girl is forced to leave her castle and live with her underbred cousins. This book, the best of Broughton's earlier works, foreshadows Hitchcock in some ways. It would make a good film.
07 Second Thoughts (1880, two volumes)
RB07
A highly-structured and memorable (if not entirely flawless) account of a bossy young woman. One of the characters is a strange young aesthete.
08 Belinda (1884)
RB08
A cheerful love story, and two very amusing grotesques. The lack of contact at one point is somewhat implausible.
09 Doctor Cupid (1886, three volumes)
RB09
Not a particularly engaging story, and for us in this "strange-faced century" the children are a strain. There is much mid-Victorian fatalism--known at the time as "pathos", and so different from the authoress's mature tone only four years later. But writing about disagreeable people appears to have been part of her intention in this ambitious novel.
10 Alas! (1890, three volumes)
RB10
Somewhat of a mystery story, long and pleasant, set in Oxford, Florence, and Algiers. The conventions are contrasted with physical charm.
11 A Widower Indeed (with Elizabeth Bisland, 1891)
RB11
12 Mrs. Bligh (1892)
RB12
This book, so different from Broughton's earlier works, is about a young widow from Tite Street who takes a trip to Anglesey. Because she is so refined, she tends to say the opposite of what she really wants to say.
13 A Beginner (1894)
RB13
The tribulations of a young authoress.
14 Scylla or Charybdis? (1895)
RB14
A serious and fascinating book about a youngish man and his polite but possessive mother in the summer heat.
15 Dear Faustina (1897)
RB15
A distinctly Sapphic comedy about various odd ladies. The dialogue does accurately reproduce the way people used to speak and think.
16 The Game and the Candle (1899)
RB16
17 Foes in Law (1900)
RB17
18 Lavinia (1902)
RB18
Her later style is one of the glories of English literature, her subject-matter more questionable. Here nice young Rupert is despised and called "muff" by Lavy and her female friends because what they are seeking, apparently, is an "upstanding fighting man, in the glory and vigour of his manhood".
19 A Waif's Progress (1905)
RB19
Masterly analysis of the conflict between two generations. (The older wins, of course.) Amusing throughout and well worth reading.
20 Mamma (1908)
RB20
"Of course, there is no pleasure in kissing unless you are seen!" That true observation is typical of the authoress. This well-constructed and amusing book brings her well into the twentieth century, and it treats of morality and prejudice (a lot of the latter her own, I might say).
21 The Devil and the Deep Sea (1910)
RB21
This well-constructed book is about the outer limits of society. It will repay a second reading. A young lady meets a pretty but underbred Orstralian gel who labours under a twang.
22 Between Two Stools (1912)
RB22
23 Concerning a Vow (1914)
RB23
24 A Thorn in the Flesh (1917)
RB24
25 A Fool in her Folly (1920)
RB25
01 Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867, three volumes)
RB01
02 Cometh Up as a Flower (1867, two volumes)
RB02
This, her long and affecting second novel, - very different from her later novels, and not an autobiography at all - is about a bright young girl. It is disfigured by one astonishing paragraph of (admitted) crude invective against Jews.
03 Red as a Rose is She (1870)
RB03
04 Good-bye, Sweetheart! (1872, three volumes)
RB04
Very good psychologically. About a wilful girl who stamps. Long and interesting descriptions of tourism in 1870 France and Switzerland. (Pontresina is much the same to-day.)
05 Nancy (1873, three volumes)
RB05
Long ladies' novel about truth and the unconscious. The conversation and behaviour of the young man Musgrave are particularly striking.
06 Joan (1876, three volumes)
RB06
A good but lonely girl is forced to leave her castle and live with her underbred cousins. This book, the best of Broughton's earlier works, foreshadows Hitchcock in some ways. It would make a good film.
07 Second Thoughts (1880, two volumes)
RB07
A highly-structured and memorable (if not entirely flawless) account of a bossy young woman. One of the characters is a strange young aesthete.
08 Belinda (1884)
RB08
A cheerful love story, and two very amusing grotesques. The lack of contact at one point is somewhat implausible.
09 Doctor Cupid (1886, three volumes)
RB09
Not a particularly engaging story, and for us in this "strange-faced century" the children are a strain. There is much mid-Victorian fatalism--known at the time as "pathos", and so different from the authoress's mature tone only four years later. But writing about disagreeable people appears to have been part of her intention in this ambitious novel.
10 Alas! (1890, three volumes)
RB10
Somewhat of a mystery story, long and pleasant, set in Oxford, Florence, and Algiers. The conventions are contrasted with physical charm.
11 A Widower Indeed (with Elizabeth Bisland, 1891)
RB11
12 Mrs. Bligh (1892)
RB12
This book, so different from Broughton's earlier works, is about a young widow from Tite Street who takes a trip to Anglesey. Because she is so refined, she tends to say the opposite of what she really wants to say.
13 A Beginner (1894)
RB13
The tribulations of a young authoress.
14 Scylla or Charybdis? (1895)
RB14
A serious and fascinating book about a youngish man and his polite but possessive mother in the summer heat.
15 Dear Faustina (1897)
RB15
A distinctly Sapphic comedy about various odd ladies. The dialogue does accurately reproduce the way people used to speak and think.
16 The Game and the Candle (1899)
RB16
17 Foes in Law (1900)
RB17
18 Lavinia (1902)
RB18
Her later style is one of the glories of English literature, her subject-matter more questionable. Here nice young Rupert is despised and called "muff" by Lavy and her female friends because what they are seeking, apparently, is an "upstanding fighting man, in the glory and vigour of his manhood".
19 A Waif's Progress (1905)
RB19
Masterly analysis of the conflict between two generations. (The older wins, of course.) Amusing throughout and well worth reading.
20 Mamma (1908)
RB20
"Of course, there is no pleasure in kissing unless you are seen!" That true observation is typical of the authoress. This well-constructed and amusing book brings her well into the twentieth century, and it treats of morality and prejudice (a lot of the latter her own, I might say).
21 The Devil and the Deep Sea (1910)
RB21
This well-constructed book is about the outer limits of society. It will repay a second reading. A young lady meets a pretty but underbred Orstralian gel who labours under a twang.
22 Between Two Stools (1912)
RB22
23 Concerning a Vow (1914)
RB23
24 A Thorn in the Flesh (1917)
RB24
25 A Fool in her Folly (1920)
RB25