Alas! A Novel Part - I - Broughton, Rhoda

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Résumé :
A sharp, shimmering pulse under genteel drawing-room manners. Alas! A Novel Part - I opens a window onto a world where whispered rumours shape lives and desire challenges decorum, inviting readers to step into Victorian England with breathheld anticipation. This restored edition brings Rhoda Broughton's keen social perception to vibrant life. The form blends brisk social comedy with intimate intrigue, offering a layered tale of marriage schemes, discreet loyalties, and the tightrope walk between personal fulfilment and public expectation. For casual readers, the brisk pace and vivid London society scenes spark immediate engagement...

Biographie:
Rhoda Broughton was a Welsh novelist and short-story writer. Her early works were known for their sensationalism, thus critics often overlooked her later, stronger work, despite her being dubbed the queen of the circulating libraries. Her novel Dear Faustina (1897) is known for its homoeroticism. Her novel Lavinia (1902) portrays a supposedly unmanly young man who wishes he had been born a woman. Broughton was a granddaughter of the 8th baronet, hence she descended from the Broughton family. She was Sheridan le Fanu's niece, and he helped her begin her literary career. Rhoda Broughton was born on November 29, 1840, in Denbigh, North Wales, the daughter of the Rev. Delves Broughton, youngest son of the Rev. Sir Henry Delves-Broughton, 8th baronet, and Jane Bennett, daughter of George Bennett, a prominent Irish barrister. Her aunt, Susanna Bennett, married the renowned fiction writer Sheridan le Fanu. Rhoda Broughton acquired an interest in reading as a young girl, particularly poetry. She was influenced by William Shakespeare, as seen by the frequent citations and allusions in her works. Presumably, after reading Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie's The Story of Elizabeth, she decided to test her own talent. Broughton, in turn, introduced Mary Cholmondeley to her publishers in 1887....

Sommaire:
for classic-literature collectors, the tonal precision, moral tension, and historical texture offer rich material for revisiting a master of british romance and social fiction victorian tradition. It is a work that rewards patient rereading, rewarding discovery of its quiet rebellions against gender roles victorian society and its finely drawn portraits of desire, reputation, and consequence. Note on literary and historical significance: Broughton's fiction illuminates the social currents of the era, and this edition foregrounds themes that resonate with today's readers while preserving the cadence of Victorian prose. Selling points: - Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions. - Restored for today's and future generations. - More than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure....