During her lifetime, Riddell has published more than 56 books, novels and story collections- including George Geith of Fen Court (1864), The Uninhabited House (1875), and Weird Stories (1882), to mention a few- and became one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period. His business and health had collapsed by 1871, and Charlotte was pushed once again into the role of breadwinner. After her mothers’ death in 1857, she married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer who worked in the City of London. She published her first novel, The Moors and the Fens (1858), under the pseudonym of F.G. This experience was later portrayed in her novel Struggle for Fame (1883). They moved to London in 1885, where Charlotte endeavored to earn a living as a writer to support them. The happy childhood at Carrickfergus came to an end when her father died, and nineteen-year-old Charlotte and her mother were at once reduced from affluence to very limited means. Riddell was a natural born storyteller: before she was old enough to read and write, her mother would write down her ideas and by the time she was fifteen she had written a full-length novel, which was never published. She was the youngest daughter of James Cowan, High Sheriff for the County of Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw, originally from Liverpool, England. She was born in Carrickfergus, Northern Ireland. Riddell (1832-1906), was a British writer. Riddell was the first recipient of a pension from the Society of Authors in 1901, and she died on September 24, 1906.Charlotte Riddell, aka Mrs.
Some of her stories, such as the novel Maxwell Drewitt (1865) are set in Ireland. Weird Stories is considered her best supernatural collection and was published in 1882. In 1868, she became co-editor of St James’s Magazine. She began using her married name, Mrs J.H. Trafford, beginning a prolific career in which she published over 50 books. She published her first novel in 1858 under the pseudonym F.G.
Her husband was always in financial difficulties, so it’s not surprising that many of her novels deal with economic issues. She married Joseph Hadley Riddell, an engineer, in 1857. Shortly after her father, James Cowan, High Sheriff of County antirm, died (1851), she and her mother moved to London (1855). The link to the work contains a brief biography of Riddell and links to more information about her.Ĭharlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan was born on Septemin Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland. Happy Irish Fiction Friday! In honor of the full moon this weekend, I thought it appropriate that we visit “a classic of Victorian supernatural fiction.” This week we visit the work of Charlotte Riddell her Weird Stories.
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