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The Ingoldsby Legends
AuthorThomas Ingoldsby
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHumorous verse and prose short stories
PublisherR. Bentley & Son
Publication date
1840, 1842, 1847
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Pages3 vols.

The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written supposedly by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor, actually a pen-name of an English clergyman named Richard Harris Barham.

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The Ingoldsby Legends

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The Ingoldsby Legends (full title: The Ingoldsby Legends, or Mirth and Marvels) is a collection of myths, legends, ghost stories and poems written supposedly...

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Richard Barham

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Tappington, in Denton, Kent, mentioned frequently in his later work The Ingoldsby Legends. At nine he was sent to St Paul's School, but his studies were interrupted...

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Brian Mitchell and Joseph Nixon

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Harris Barham's The Ingoldsby Legends, supposedly written by Thomas Ingoldsby of Tappington Manor. The play has two actors, playing the moralising cleric...

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Bleeding Heart Yard

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Dorrit, chapter 12. Barham, Richard. "The House-Warming!!: A Legend Of Bleeding-Heart Yard", the Ingoldsby Legends. Map showing Bleeding Heart Yard, Streetmap...

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Babes in the Wood

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the story in his Ingoldsby Legends, under the title of The Babes in the Wood; or, the Norfolk Tragedy. Harris cheekily claims in an endnote that the true...

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By Jingo

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murderer. A version of the story appears in the Ingoldsby Legends. The form "by Gingo!" is also recorded in the 18th century. The expression "hey Jingo"/"hey...

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Arthur Rackham

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such as The Ingoldsby Legends (1898), Gulliver's Travels and Fairy Tales of the Brothers Grimm (both 1900). This was developed further through the austere...

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Hand of Glory

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1893. The second of the Ingoldsby Legends, "The Hand of Glory, or, The Nurse's Story", describes the making and use of a Hand of Glory. The first lines...

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Romney Marsh

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1551–1623) "The world according to the best geographers is divided into Europe, Asia, Africa, America, and Romney Marsh" from Ingoldsby Legends, Reverend...

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Warehorne

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Barham, the author of The Ingoldsby Legends, resided for a short while. The settlement is in four main parts: The main part of Warehorne is near the central...

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Netley Abbey

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at the abbey during the middle ages. Dark deeds before the Dissolution also appeared in the section of Richard Harris Barham's Ingoldsby Legends (1837–1845)...

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Gangulphus

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about the saint in The Ingoldsby Legends, entitled A Lay of St. Gengulphus, by Richard Barham. The Psalterium Foundation has undertaken to collect the available...

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John Tenniel

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Thomas Ingoldsby's The Ingoldsby Legends Pollok's Course of Time (1857) The Poets of the Nineteenth Century (1858) Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven", in The Poetical...

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List of gothic fiction works

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(Là-bas (1891) Thomas Ingoldsby, The Ingoldsby Legends (1840) Washington Irving, The Adventure of the German Student (1824) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"...

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1837 in literature

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I: The Two Poets Richard Harris Barham – The Ingoldsby Legends (serialization begins in Bentley's Miscellany) Robert Montgomery Bird – Nick of the Woods...

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Antony Hopkins

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For the next 15 years, Hopkins earned his living mostly from composing. Hopkins's first opera, Lady Rohesia (1947), based on the Ingoldsby Legends of sixteenth-century...

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The Weird Circle

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unrecognizable save for some character names. Source work not confirmed. Probably. The legend of Faust is centuries old and several authors have rewritten it. Weird...

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Hugh Walpole

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Horace Walpole, and on his mother's Richard Harris Barham, author of The Ingoldsby Legends. It was as an author that Walpole felt impelled to make his career...

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