Charlotte Riddell was one of the first women to write fiction about London City life and the world of business. She also wrote children’s stories, tales of her native Ireland, and supernatural tales. In this book you will find seven short stories specially selected by the critic August Nemo:
– A Strange Christmas Story
– Walnut-Tree House
– The Open Door
– Nut Bush Farm
– The Old House in Vauxhall Walk
– Sandy the Tinker
– Old Mrs. Jones
Giới thiệu về tác giả
Charlotte Riddell, known also as Mrs J. H. Riddell (30 September 1832 24 September 1906), was a popular and influential Irish-born writer in the Victorian period. She was the author of 56 books, novels and short stories, and also became part-owner and editor of St. James’s Magazine, a prominent London literary journal in the 1860s.