James Ewing Ritchie
Born1 May 1820
Wrentham, Suffolk, England
Died1898
NationalityEnglish
Other namesChristopher Crayon
OccupationWriter

James Ewing Ritchie (1 May 1820 – 1898) was an English journalist and writer.[1]

Born in Wrentham, Suffolk, the son of Reverend Andrew Ritchie, he was educated at Coward College[2] and University College, London.[3] He became an author of travel books and political biographies.[4] Seven of his books were about nineteenth-century London.[5]

Bibliography

  • Northern antiquities (1847)
  • Freehold land societies; their history, present position, and claims (1853)
  • The new Sunday liquor law vindicated (1855)
  • The public-house trade as it is: or An epitome of the evidence taken before a committee of the house of commons in the parliamentary sessions of 1853-4 (1855)
  • Ratcliffe-Highway (1857)
  • The London pulpit[6] (1858)
  • The night side of London[6] (1858)
  • Here and there in London[6] (1859)
  • About London[6] (1860)
  • Modern statesmen, or sketches from the strangers' gallery of the house of commons[6] (1861)
  • The life of Richard Cobden: a biography (1865)
  • The life and times of viscount Palmerston (1866)
  • British senators: or, political sketches, past and present[6] (1869)
  • The religious life of London (1870)
  • The life and discoveries of David Livingstone (1876)
  • On the track of the pilgrim fathers; or: holidays in Holland (1876)
  • The cruise of the Elena; or, yachting in the Hebrides[6] (1877)
  • The life and discoveries of David Livingstone L.L.D., F.R.G.S. (1877)
  • Christopher Crayon's Christmas stories (1881)
  • Imperialism in South Africa[6] (1881)
  • Famous city men (1884)
  • To Canada with emigrants: a record of actual experiences[6] (1885)
  • The life of the Right Hon. William Ewart Gladstone (1886)
  • Pictures of Canadian life: a record of actual experiences (1886)
  • The spring at Bournemouth (1886)
  • Hydropathy and health: or, sketches of hydropathic establishments (1888)
  • Our Premiers. From Walpole to Salisbury (1888)
  • An Australian ramble, or, a summer in Australia[6] (1890)
  • Brighter South Africa: or life at the Cape and Natal[6] (1892)
  • East Anglia: personal recollections and historical associations[6] (1893)
  • Some of our east coast towns (1893)
  • Crying for the light or fifty years ago (1896)
  • The Cities of the Dawn: Naples - Athens - Pompeii - Constantinople (1897)
  • Christopher Crayon's recollections (1898)
  • The real Gladstone: an anecdotal biography[6] (1898)

References

  1. ↑ Moyles, R.G., ed. (1994), Improved by Cultivation: English-Canadian Prose to 1914, Broadview Press, p. 58, ISBN 1551110490.
  2. ↑ Dixon, Simon N. (June 2011). "Coward College (1833-1850)". Dissenting Academies Online: Database and Encyclopedia. Dr Williams's Centre for Dissenting Studies, Queen Mary Centre for Religion and Literature in English. Retrieved 3 February 2019.
  3. ↑ Allibone, Samuel Austin (1899), A critical dictionary of English literature and British and American authors, living and deceased, from the earliest accounts to the latter half of the nineteenth century, vol. 2, Philadelphia: J. B. Lippincott company, p. 1282.
  4. ↑ Ingles, Ernest Boyce; Peel, Bruce Braden (2003), Bibliography of the Canadian Prairies to 1953 (3rd ed.), University of Toronto Press, p. 836, ISBN 9780802048257.
  5. ↑ Laroon, Marcel; Shesgreen, Sean (1990), The Criers and Hawkers of London: Engravings and Drawings, Stanford University Press, p. 72, ISBN 0804715068.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Online Books by J. Ewing Ritchie", The Online Books Page, University of Pennsylvania, retrieved 27 February 2013.


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