Abstract
Addressing Rhoda Broughton’s first three novels, Not Wisely, but Too Well (1867), Cometh Up as a Flower (1867), and Red as a Rose Is She (1870), this chapter explores the innovative strategies for depicting female sexuality that constitute Broughton’s contribution to Victorian women’s writing, and which include justifying female desire by defining it as natural instinct. The chapter also examines the critique of female disenfranchisement through marriage that places Broughton’s work in tension with the marketplace niche she would fill upon the publication of her third novel. Departing from the sensationalism of her earliest fiction, Red as a Rose Is She established Broughton as a writer of domestic fiction, yet its disturbingly jealous male lead anticipates her later portrayal of women’s sexual suppression within domesticity.
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