Black published an interview with Riddell in Notable Women Authors of the Day: Biographical Sketches. This is understandable, but it has in this case led to the neglect of an important Irish writer.”įurther biographical information on Charlotte Riddell can be found here Sometimes it’s simply because no one puts forward the money for a reprint while copyright is held by the time the work is in the public domain, often many decades later, the work may be all but forgotten. “It is worth asking ourselves why some books are canon and others vanish. In 2014, Coen and Davis-Goff sought to introduce one of Riddell’s neglected works to a new generation of readers by re-issuing her “caustic, funny semi-autobiographical masterpiece” – A Struggle for Fame as part of their “Recovered Voices” series. “Riddell’s three-volume novels fell out of fashion when the industry retired the practice of serialising long works, and after her death in 1906 her notoriety faded.” The founders of Irish publishing house, Tramp Press, Lisa Coen and Sarah Davis-Goff offer some explanation for this in their statement that: A prolific author with over fifty books to her name, it is perhaps surprising that Riddell’s work is not more widely known today. Sparling and after marriage to Joseph Hadley Riddell in 1857, she used her married title – Mrs. Much of her early work was published under pseudonyms F. Born in County Antrim in 1832, Charlotte Elizabeth Lawson Cowan moved to London with her mother after her father’s death.
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