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Hertford O'Donnell's Warning by Charlotte Riddell
- 2022/07/18
- 再生時間： 49 分
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Charlotte Riddell (1832 – 1906) was born in Carrickfergus. She was the youngest daughter of James Cowan of Carrickfergus, High Sheriff for County Antrim, and Ellen Kilshaw of Liverpool, England.
She wrote 56 books, novels and short stories and became part-owner and editor of St. James's Magazine in the 1860s.
After the death of her father, she and her mother moved to London. The following year her mother died. Riddell married Joseph Hadley Riddell in 1851. They had no children.
Riddell wrote many 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—feature supernatural buildings.
She also wrote several shorter ghost stories, such as The Open Door and Nut Bush Farm. These were collected into the volume Weird Stories.
Her husband died in 1880. After 1886, Riddell lived in seclusion. She died in 1906.