A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature/Ritchie, Leitch
Ritchie, Leitch (1800?-1865). -- Novelist, b. 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.