The Uninhabited House

ISBN-13: 9781554815036 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022

Charlotte Riddell; Melissa Edmundson

Spis treści

• Acknowledgements
  Introduction
  Charlotte Riddell: A Brief Chronology
  A Note on the Text

  The Uninhabited House

  Appendix A: Literary and Biographical Contexts
  • 1. From Mrs. J.H. Riddell, “The Miseries of Christmas,” Routledge’s Christmas Annual (December 1867)
  • 2. [Raymond Blathwayt], “Lady Novelists—A Chat with Mrs. J.H. Riddell,” Pall Mall Gazette (18 February 1890)
  • 3. From Helen C. Black, “Mrs. Riddell,” Notable Women Authors of the Day (1893)
  Appendix B: “The Open Door”
  • 1. Mrs. J.H. Riddell, “The Open Door,” Weird Stories (1882)
  Appendix C: Contemporary Views on Ghosts, Haunted Houses, and Dream States
  • 1. From Catherine Crowe, The Night Side of Nature (1848)
  • 2. From F. Anstey [Anstey Guthrie], “The Decay of the British Ghost,” Longman’s Magazine (January 1884)
  • 3. From Andrew Lang, Cock Lane and Common-sense (1894)
  • 4. From William Fishbough, “The Spirit World Illustrated from Dream Life,” The Spiritual Magazine (February 1872)
  Appendix D: The Business of London City Life
  • 1. From F.G. Trafford [Charlotte Riddell], George Geith of Fen Court (1865)
  • 2. From George Augustus Sala, “Houses to Let,” Gaslight and Daylight (1872)
  • 3. From Edward F. Turner, The Organisation of a Solicitor’s Office (1886)
  • 4. From Francis Davenant, What Shall My Son Be? (1870)
  • 5. From Charles Edward Parsons, Clerks: Their Position and Advancement (1876)

  Select Bibliography and Recommended Reading