Ellen Cowan
, mother of the future CR
, died in London of cancer, leaving Charlotte with a grief that still seemed to her as sharp and present
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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as ever nearly forty years later.
qtd. in
Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/.
Bleiler, Everett F., editor. Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1985, 2 vols.
1: 270
Family and Intimate relationships
Charlotte Riddell
Some sources say that Ellen Kilshaw
was of Scots descent, but CR
clearly says her mother was English. Ellen was noted for her beauty, grace, and accomplishment. Past seventy and taking an elegiac tone in...
Residence
Charlotte Riddell
Finding that life in County Down was still too expensive, Charlotte Cowan (later CR
) and her mother
made the more decisive move to London, with the idea that she might support them both...
Textual Production
Charlotte Riddell
CR
's Berna Boyle, A Love Story of the County Down, published this year, was set mostly at Dundonald, where she and her mother
had briefly lived, and partly in Belfast.
Black, Helen C. Notable Women Authors of the Day. D. Bryce, 1893.
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Ellis, Stewart Marsh. Wilkie Collins, Le Fanu, and Others. Books for Libraries Press, 1931.
