Red as a Rose is She: A Novel

• Includes a brief biography of Rhoda BroughtonThe few men and women whom I am going to tell you about and whom I shall want you to like a little or dislike a little as the case may be were nothing out of the way for goodness or beauty or talent; they did a hundred thousand naughty things each one of them. Some of them did them with impunity as far as this world goes...Miss Craven has refused three proposals all made by the same person: the first very stoutly and mercilessly from Jack's arm-chair where she had originally taken up her position; the second decisively still but with less cruelty from the music-stool to which she had next retired; and the third in a hasty and wavering manner from the corner in which she has taken final refuge in a strong fortified entrenchment behind the writing-table.