She also edited a magazine called 'Home' in the sixties, and wrote short tales for the Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge and Routledge's Christmas annuals. James's Magazine,' which had been started in 1861 under Mrs. Riddell was co-proprietor and editor of the 'St. It was dramatised in 1883 by Wybert Reeve, was produced at Scarborough, and was afterwards played in Australia. Trafford' (1864 other editions 1865, 1886), for which Tinsley paid her 800 l. The most notable is perhaps 'George Geith of Fen Court, by F. Novels and tales followed in quick succession, and between 18 she issued thirty volumes. Trafford, which she only abandoned for her own name in 1864. Her first novel, 'The Moors and the Fens,' appeared in 1858 (3 vols. Her husband soon lost his money, and Mrs. Riddell, a civil engineer, of Winson Green House, Staffordshire. Her mother died in 1856, and in 1857 Miss Cowan married J. Down, the scene of her novel 'Bema Boyle' (1884) and then came to London. After her father's death Charlotte lived with her mother at Dundonald, co. Antrim, was the youngest daughter of James Cowan of Carrickfergus, by his wife Ellen Kilshaw.
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