Description:
The first full-length critical study of Broughton's work explores her pioneering representation of female sexuality, & her sensitive portrayal of women's disadvantaged position.
Brief description: Tamar Heller, associate professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, is the author of Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic (1992), and has co-edited Approaches to Teaching Gothic Fiction: The British and American Traditions (2003) and Scenes of the Apple: Food and the Female Body in Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Women's Writing (2003). She has published widely on Victorian Gothic and sensation fiction and written extensively on Rhoda Broughton, editing Cometh Up as a Flower for Pickering & Chatto's series Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction: 1855-1890 (2004), and Not Wisely, but Too Well for Victorian Secrets Press (2013).