Mrs J H Charlotte RiddellCharlotte Riddell (1832-1906), who wrote as Mrs. J. H. Riddell, was one of the most popular and influential writers of the Victorian period. Her first novel, The Moors and the Fens, appeared in 1858. She issued it under the seudonym of F. G. Trafford, which she abandoned for her own name in 1864. Between 1858 and 1902, she published thirty novels and tales. She was a prominent writer of ghost stories. Read More Read Less