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Charlotte Riddell aka Mrs J.H. Riddell (30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906) was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period. The author of 56 books, novels and short stories, she was also part owner and editor of the ''St. James's Magazine'', one of the most prestigious literary magazines of the 1860s. ==Biography== Born Charlotte Eliza Lawson Cowan in Carrickfergus, County Antrim, Ireland on 30 September 1832, Riddell was the youngest daughter of James Cowan, of Carrickfergus, High Sheriff for the county of Antrim and Ellen Kilshaw of Liverpool, England. In the winter of 1855, four years after her father's death, she and her mother moved to London. Charlotte was visited by death again the following year when her mother died. In 1857, she married Joseph Hadley Riddell, a civil engineer, originally from Staffordshire, but resident in London. It is known that they moved to live in St John's Lodge between Harringay and West Green in the mid-1860s, moving out in 1873 as the area was being built up. Her first novel, ''The Moors and the Fens,'' appeared in 1858. She issued it under the pseudonym of F. G. Trafford, which she only abandoned for her own name in 1864. Novels and tales followed in quick succession, and between 1858 and 1902, she issued thirty volumes. The most notable is perhaps ''George Geith of Fen Court, by F. G. Trafford'' (1864; other editions 1865, 1886), for which Tinsley paid her £800. It was dramatised in 1883 by Wybert Reeve, was produced at Scarborough, and was afterwards played in Australia. From 1867, Mrs. Riddell was co-proprietor and editor of the ''St. James's Magazine,'' which had been started in 1861 under Mrs. S. C. Hall. She also edited a magazine called ''Home'' in the sixties, and wrote short tales for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and Routledge's Christmas annuals. Her short stories were less successful than her novels. Riddell was also prominent as a writer of ghost stories. Five of her novels- ''Fairy Water'', ''The Uninhabited House'', ''The Haunted River'', ''The Disappearance of Mr. Jeremiah Redworth'' and ''The Nun's Curse''- deal with buildings blighted by supernatural phenomena.〔J. L. Campbell, Sr., "Mrs. J. H. Riddell", in E. F. Bleiler, ed. ''Supernatural Fiction Writers'' (New York: Scribner's, 1985), (pp.269–278. ) ISBN 0-684-17808-7〕 Riddell also wrote several shorter ghost stories, such as "The Open Door" and "Nut Bush Farm", which were collected in the volume ''Weird Stories''.〔 Her husband died in 1880. Despite harass and misfortune her twenty-three years of married Life were happy. After 1886, she lived in seclusion at Upper Halliford, Middlesex. She was the first pensioner of the Society of Authors, receiving a pension of £60 a year in May 1901. She died from cancer in Ashford, Kent, England on 24 September 1906. There were no children of the marriage. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charlotte Riddell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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