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Author:   Charlotte Riddell ,  Melissa Edmundson
Publisher:   Broadview Press Ltd
Imprint:   Broadview Press Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.294kg
ISBN:  

9781554815036

ISBN 10:   1554815037
Pages:   264
Publication Date:   21 March 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Charlotte Riddell: A Brief Chronology A Note on the TextThe 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

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Melissa Edmundson has given us a well-supported edition of this haunted-house novel by an important Irish novelist who takes as her metier mid-century London--its clerks, suburbs, and shabby gentility. Those unfamiliar with Charlotte Riddell will find this a pleasure to read, and those who have wished to teach her work--and the long-form Victorian ghost story more broadly--will find this invaluable. A prolific and very successful writer, Riddell showcases her eye for detail and sense of humor in this, one of her most-loved novels. -- Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida The Uninhabited House is one of the best ghost stories of the nineteenth century--by one of the genre's finest writers. While Charlotte Riddell was a bestselling and prolific novelist and short-story writer, she has been neglected and even ignored for decades and is only now attracting the kind of critical and scholarly attention that her work deserves. Edmundson's comprehensive Introduction places both the author and her novel in relation to the reinvention of Christmas and the obsession with ghosts and haunted houses that were features of late Victorian life. The appendices provide a fascinating insight into the ways in which concerns about property and the preternatural were deeply intertwined in the late nineteenth century. This is a very welcome addition to Broadview's extensive range of nineteenth-century texts. -- Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin

“Melissa Edmundson has given us a well-supported edition of this haunted-house novel by an important Irish novelist who takes as her métier mid-century London—its clerks, suburbs, and shabby gentility. Those unfamiliar with Charlotte Riddell will find this a pleasure to read, and those who have wished to teach her work—and the long-form Victorian ghost story more broadly—will find this invaluable. A prolific and very successful writer, Riddell showcases her eye for detail and sense of humor in this, one of her most-loved novels.” — Pamela K. Gilbert, University of Florida “The Uninhabited House is one of the best ghost stories of the nineteenth century—by one of the genre’s finest writers. While Charlotte Riddell was a bestselling and prolific novelist and short-story writer, she has been neglected and even ignored for decades and is only now attracting the kind of critical and scholarly attention that her work deserves. Edmundson’s comprehensive Introduction places both the author and her novel in relation to the reinvention of Christmas and the obsession with ghosts and haunted houses that were features of late Victorian life. The appendices provide a fascinating insight into the ways in which concerns about property and the preternatural were deeply intertwined in the late nineteenth century. This is a very welcome addition to Broadview’s extensive range of nineteenth-century texts.” — Jarlath Killeen, Trinity College Dublin

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Melissa Edmundson is Senior Lecturer of English at Clemson University.

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