The Uninhabited House

Melissa Edmundson is Senior Lecturer of English at Clemson University.

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