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Leitch Ritchie (1800–1865) was a Scottish novelist and journalist. He was born at Greenock and worked as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession.
Ritchie wrote four novels, of which the most successful was Wearyfoot Common. The others were Schinderhannes, The Robber of the Rhine and The Magician. In his later years he edited Chambers’ Journal. He also wrote short stories, including one of the first British werewolf short stories The Man-Wolf (1831). Ritchie also wrote non-fiction works, such as travel books.
Born: 1800 in Greenock
Died: 1865
Nationality: Scottish
Gender: Male
Leitch Ritchie
Wanderings by the Seine. / By Leitch Ritchie, Esq., author of Heath's Picturesque Annual, Schinderhannes, Romance of French History, &c. With twenty engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A. - London, Paris, Berlin: [1834]
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Leitch Ritchie
Wanderings by the Loire. / By Leitch Ritchie, Esq., author of Heath's Picturesque Annual, Schinderhannes, Romance of French History, &c. With twenty-one engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A. - London, Paris, Berlin: [1833]
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Leitch Ritchie
Wanderings by the Seine : from Rouen to the source. / By Leitch Ritchie, Esq., author of Heath's Picturesque Annual, Schinderhannes, Romance of French History, &c. With twenty engravings from drawings by J. M. W. Turner, Esq. R.A. - London, Paris, Berlin: [1835]
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Leitch Ritchie
Scott and Scotland / by Leitch Ritchie ; with twenty-one highly finished engravings, from original drawings by George Cattermole - London ; Paris ; Berlin ; Philadelphia: 1835
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