Dear Faustina.

by Rhoda Broughton

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448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1897

About the author

Rhoda Broughton was a popular British (Welsh) novelist and short story writer.

Reviews

[Dee Rogers · Rating 3 out of 5]

A strange book from a different time. I loved the prose and the dialogue, they positively sparkle. But it's sometimes hard to understand values that the author seems to assume. Broughton writes movingly about the challenges faced by women, and informatively about the progressive movement. Simultaneously, she seems to really view many women as deeply stupid people who are properly treated like children, and is deeply suspicious of women who don't want to live domestically.

The relationship between Faustina and Altheia is never called romantic, and the word lesbian is never said, but it's hard to imagine how else anyone read this in 1897.