Charlotte Eliza Lawson Riddell:
(nee Cowan; 30 September 1832 – 24 September 1906).
Known also as Mrs J. H. Riddell, and by her pen name F. G. Trafford, 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.
He had been walking for a long time, ever since dark in fact, and dark falls soon in December.
