Chris Riddell (author of Goth Girl) on Ada Lovelace

Posted on 14th October 2014 by William the Bloody

Chris Riddell, the author of the hilariously witty (and knowingly intertextual) Goth Girl children’s series, talks here about how the life of Ada Lovelace, pioneering computer programmer and daughter of Lord Byron, has influenced his work.

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3 Responses to Chris Riddell (author of Goth Girl) on Ada Lovelace

  1. firekrank says:
    14th October 2014 at 8:45 am

    I just wanted to post the ‘Reading the Gothic’ reaction to ‘Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse’. Needless to say, we loved it – http://readingthegothic.wordpress.com/2014/03/20/and-goth-girl-wins-the-day/.

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  2. William the Bloody says:
    14th October 2014 at 8:50 pm

    Thanks, Kaja. Sam introduced me to it–it’s dead funny!

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  3. Pingback: Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl and the Wuthering Fright | Open Graves, Open Minds

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