| An early Victorian parodist best known for his humorous verse and fiction, "Thomas Ingoldsby" was the pen name of the writer and Anglican priest Richard Harris Barham (and is now the name of an insufficiently respected pub in Kent). Much of his work was published in Bentley's Miscellany, a popular weekly magazine of essays, poetry, and fiction; Bentley also published a collection of Ingoldsby's material, The Ingoldsby Legends; or Mirth and Marvels, which went through numerous editions in the mid- to late C19, suggesting a considerable popularity. Ingoldsby's work (and the public reception thereof) should be considered part of the (very) early Victorian repudiation of Romantic excess, a repudiation that often took the form of parody or satire; another satirist of the time who frequently targeted the Gothic was Thomas Love Peacock. Of course even earlier writers were having fun at the Gothic's expense; see, most notably, Jane Austen's parody of Gothic novels, Northanger Abbey.
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