Thomas Ingoldsby was the pen name of Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), an English clergyman and writer. A minor canon of St Paul's Cathedral, he began publishing comic and macabre retellings of myths, legends and ghost stories, mostly in verse, in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837. Collected from 1840 as The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, they were among the most widely read light verse of the Victorian era and were reprinted throughout the century, often with illustrations by George Cruikshank and John Leech.
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Thomas Ingoldsby was the pen name of Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845), an English clergyman and writer. A minor canon of St Paul's Cathedral, he began publishing comic and macabre retellings of myths, legends and ghost stories, mostly in verse, in Bentley's Miscellany from 1837. Collected from 1840 as The Ingoldsby Legends; or, Mirth and Marvels, they were among the most widely read light verse of the Victorian era and were reprinted throughout the century, often with illustrations by George Cruikshank and John Leech.
