![]() James Magazine in 1867 and was also the editor of a magazine called Home.Īfter her husband died, leaving much debt, Riddell lived in seclusion but paid off the debt with her writing. ![]() Riddell became the co-owner and editor of St. In modern times, she is better known for her Victorian ghost stories. Between 18, she published 30 novels and was known as “the novelist of the City” for her books about the financial and business worlds. In 1858, she published her first novel, The Moors and the Fens, and married civil engineer Joseph Hadley Riddell. When she was in her late teens, her father died, and four years later, she and her mother decided to move to London so that Charlotte could make a living as a writer (fictionalized in her 1883 novel, A Struggle for Fame). Riddell was born in Carrickfergus, Ireland, the youngest daughter of the High Sheriff for County Antrim, James Cowan. James Magazine, a prominent London journal of the time. ![]() She was also part owner and editor of St. During her lifetime, she was very popular and was the author of more than 50 novels and short stories. Charlotte Riddell was an Irish/English writer who is best known now for stories of the supernatural. ![]()
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