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Leonard Cresswell Ingleby
1876–1923
Best known under the pen name Guy Thorne, this English writer and journalist produced popular fiction and also wrote a memoir of Oscar Wilde based on personal recollections. His work blends literary gossip, journalism, and the fast-moving storytelling that appealed to early 20th-century readers.
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About the author
Writing under the name Leonard Cresswell Ingleby, he published Oscar Wilde: Some Reminiscences in 1912, a short memoir drawing on his memories of Wilde. Library records identify Leonard Cresswell Ingleby as a pseudonym and connect the book to Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger Gull (1876–1923).
He was better known to many readers by another pen name, Guy Thorne. Under that name he worked as an English journalist and novelist, building a reputation for lively, accessible writing that reached a wide popular audience.
That mix of literary remembrance and commercial storytelling makes him an interesting figure today: a writer who moved easily between memoir, journalism, and fiction, and who left behind a firsthand link to Oscar Wilde as well as a substantial body of popular prose.