Books, Articles & Essays Featuring Useful Information on Charlotte Riddell
Compiled by Michael Flowers ©2005-2006
Helen C. Black, Notable Women Authors of the Day (Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1893).
E.F. Bleiler, ‘Introduction’, Five Victorian Novels of the Victorian Period (New York: Dover, 1971).
E.F. Bleiler, ‘Introduction’, Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period (New York: Dover 1975).
E.F. Bleiler (ed.), A Guide to Supernatural Fiction (Kent State Univ Press, 1983)
E.F. Bleiler, ‘Mrs. Riddell, Mid-Victorian Ghosts, and Christmas Annuals’, The Collected Ghost
Stories of Mrs J.H. Riddell (New York: Dover, 1977).
E.F. Bleiler, ‘Riddell, Mrs J.H.,’ The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
(Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1986).
James L. Campbell, ‘Mrs J.H. Riddell’, Supernatural Fiction Writers (ed.) E.F. Bleiler, (New York:
Scribner’s, 1985).
Susan P. Casteras & Linda H. Peterson, A Struggle For Fame: Victorian Women Artists & Authors
(New Haven, Connecticut: Yale Centre for British Art, 1994).
Nigel Cross, The Common Writer: Life in Nineteenth Century Grubb Street (Cambridge: CUP, 1985).
Richard Dalby, ‘Introduction’, The Haunted River & Three Other Ghostly Novellas by Mrs J.H. Riddell
(Mountain Ash, Wales: Sarob Press, 2001).
S.M Ellis, Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu & Others (London: Constable, 1934).
Andrew Maunder, “Charlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell”, Nineteenth-Century British Women Writers ed.
Abigail Bloom (London: Aldywch Press, 2000).
John R. Reed, “Friend to mammon: Speculation in Victorian Literature,” Victorian Studies, 27 (1983-4),
pp. 179-202.
Michael Sadleir, XIX Fiction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1951).
Patricia Thomas Srebrnik, “Mrs Riddell and the Reviewers: A Case Study in Victorian Popular Fiction,
” Women’s Studies, 23 (1994): 69-84.
Van Thal, Herbert, ‘Introduction’, Weird Stories by Mrs J.H. Riddell (London: Home & Van Thal, 1946).
Robert Lee Wolff, ‘Introduction’, The Nun’s Curse by Mrs J.H. Riddell (New York: Garland, 1979).
Robert Lee Wolff, Nineteenth-Century Fiction: A Bibliographical Catalogue, 5 vols (New York:
Garland, 1981-6).
Forthcoming:
Tamara S. Wagner, “Respectably Dressed, or Dressed for Respect: The Moral Economies of Dress in the
Novels of Victorian Women Writers.” In Styling Texts: Dress and Fashion in Literature. Eds. Cynthia Kuhn and Cindy Carlson.
Working Paper
Tamar S. Wagner, “Speculation in Victorian Suburbia: From Silver-Fork Satire to Suburban Gothic.”