A Bottomless Grave by A Bottomless Grave & Other Victorian Tales of Terror

Author:A Bottomless Grave & Other Victorian Tales of Terror
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780486114378
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2012-10-10T16:00:00+00:00

The Man with the Nose

by RHODA BROUGHTON

If there was one thing that Victorian authoresses loved, it was a ghost story. Both the famous and the not so famous, they all tried their hand at tales of terror, with varying degrees of success. Those who succeeded included Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Oliphant, Mary Molesworth, Mrs J. H. Riddell, Mrs Gaskell and Rhoda Broughton.

It was on the cards that Rhoda Broughton (1840—1920) would succeed at this type of writing, for she was the niece of the famous J. Sheridan le Fanu. Born in Denbigh, North Wales, Rhoda Broughton never married and lived with her parents until they died, when she moved to Headington, Oxford.

Her novels were extremely successful in the late 1880s (le Fanu himself bought her first novel, Not Wisely But Too Well, as a serial in his Dublin University Magazine) and her success enabled her to turn to short story writing for her own convenience.

In 1879 she published Twilight Stories, her only volume of ghostly tales, from which comes ‘The Man with the Nose’. It is a chilling story and the first to utilise a theme later taken up by E. F. Benson in his famous tale ‘The Face’.

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