New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-11-23
RHODA BROUGHTON.
From The London World.

London
lIoywell st Is one OF those ancient thoroughfares IN
oxford which Is ull OF houses bull accort, Ia fla
are anything but horizontal one Of these old houses is
the home or Miss Broughton. The visitor il nrss
greeted with the bark Of innumerablc dogs principally
OF the pug species. amongst which the original sutyS
who plays so prominent part In the novel OF Rcndav
may easily be recognized by It's ncnrabe propensity for
Swapping al unfamiliar heels Behind the house is long
narrow garden, bounded by lofty walls within witch tho
most sosoulc secson Is possible and where no noise,
except the inOnoonOus cang OF chapel bells dis.
turbs the solitary student The garden Is ayorte re-
sort OF the Of the house at those times when she is
nOveisc literature But her literary work dona
in the early morning. when she Is sometimes ,ontent
with writing only single chapter, or, perhaps, even
only .wO or three pages
Miss Br0ughtOn was born on November 30. 1910. al
segrwyd Hail. Denhghshire house then rented 10y her
maternal grandfather Her childhood was chiefly spent
AT mouse III Cheshre oelongns 10 ber uhce sir henry
Broughton. and her early youth In charming Elza-
behan mansion in staordshire which had belonged to
joining church described in "Cometh up as
Flower" | was commonplace child enough, Miss
aptitude for anything In particular We were rather
strictly brought up. and not allowed to play with other
fully try to remember educated us in great Fart himself
My memory hardly go back to a time when be did
not read Shakespeare aloud tD MS He taught us Greek
Latin, and the elements OF Hebrew all OF which have
conscientously forgotten long ago" And what first
wrote limo till was twenty-five aud then read Miss
Thackeray's story of Elizabeth" Hearing 1t was
self why should not write as we'll And so one wee
Sunday afternoon having very tired OF suns
copybook and began to scribbe Never shall forget
rapture OF that first lit OF composition; and though
the story when finished. severely criticised by an
old friend that never venured TO offer II to any pub
Usher yet far from being discouraged th In the
autumn OF the 1863 wrote Not Wisely but
Too Well" finished it In six weeks I'm state OF high
excitement all the time. IL lay BY me until January,
1868, when, being visit to Dublin, u my uncle Dy
marriage Joseph lie Fanr. tine novelist read two speci-
chapters aloud To him and To Percy Fitzgerald he
took by the hand. saying You will succeed,
aud when you do remember that prophesied It, He 40
once accepted the story for "The Dublin University
Magazine" which he then edited, and also persuaded
Richard Bentley to promise to bring 1t ont IN three
yolumne form. From this engagement however, Mr.
Bentley subsequently drew back consequence OF the
scru les Of his reader" Miss Broughton subsequently
wrote Cometh al IA Flower" which was published by
Bentley in the spring Of 1867. soon after its pubca-
ton, The Times which praised more rarely than now.
came out with two columns Of favorable criticism
remember. says Miss Broughton, being amused at its
being claimed by other people. lady told an acquant-
ance of mine that her son had written It,"
Miss BrOughtOns novels, as a whole, Lave Won TOT
themselves "a decided place IN contemporary nteiatle
The that adverse criticism can say might he exc
pressed in the Judgment OF Charles Reade, that Mise
BroughtOn IL lady who Is impairment 10 ner Creator
And popularity In all ranks of society shows sign
Of decline. short time Captain Markham OF tho
Alert introduced TO her at his own request tie told
her that in some Arctic atitudes ice bound
mountain christened Mount Rhoda, an ackno~l-
edent of the pleasure which her tales had given to the
onc a. that weasel.