![]() In Economic women: Essays on desire and dispossession in nineteenth-century British culture, ed. Charlotte Riddell: Novelist of ‘The city. Spectral economics and the horror of risk in Charlotte Riddell’s ghost stories. She wrote a popular sensation novel, Above Suspicion, in 1876 and her ghost. She published under various pen names, including RV Sparling and Rainey. She was editor of the popular St James Magazine in 1867, which she co-owned, and also edited a less popular magazine called Home throughout the 1860s. Unstable finances all her life pushed her into a prolific and sporadic literary career publishing and republishing whenever possible in multiple journals including the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge and Routledge’s Christmas Annuals. ![]() Her first novel, Zuriel’s Grandchild, was published in 1856 under the name F.G. Riddell, was the part owner and editor of the popular St James Magazine and author of more than 56 works, notably George Geith of Fen Court (1864) and a wide collection of ghost stories, many of which remain anthologized. Charlotte Eliza or Elizabeth Lawson Cowan (1832–1906), also known as Charlotte Riddell or Mrs. ![]()
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