![]() ![]() Many of the ghosts are female, sometimes (but not always) women who have been wronged. Riddell liked to write haunted house tales, usually houses that were cheap with local reputations, rented or purchased by the narrator who then discovers why said house was cheap. The Victorian readership was very interested in supernatural tales. She wrote for the popular market and was the first pensioner of the Society of Authors. Five of her novels are also ghost stories. The hauntings are often linked to past injustices.Ĭharlotte Riddell was a prolific Victorian writer, producing over fifty novels and a number of short stories. ![]() It isn’t always a house that is haunted, in one it is a farm. This collection certainly fits into the gothic category with rambling old houses recalcitrant furniture and apparitions. This is from a publishing house called Victorian Secrets which publishes books from and about the nineteenth century, some of which might otherwise be difficult to find. A collection of six Victorian ghost stories. ![]()
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