LEITCH RITCHIE BIOGRAPHY
LEITCH RITCHIE BIOGRAPHY from the Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John Cousin.
RITCHIE, LEITCH (1800?-1865). —Novelist, born at Greenock and in business as a clerk in Glasgow, but about 1820 adopted literature as his profession. He wrote several novels of which the best known is Wearyfoot Common ; others were The Robber of the Rhine and The Magician . In his later years he ed. Chambers's Journal .