# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/james-malcolm-rymer
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:09:05.143Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/james-malcolm-rymer"
name: "James Malcolm Rymer"
slug: "james-malcolm-rymer"
description: "James Malcolm Rymer (1814–1884) was a British 19th-century writer of penny dreadfuls, and is the probable co-author with Thomas Peckett Prest of both Varney the Vampire (1847) and The String of Pearls (1847), in which the notorious villain Sweeney Todd makes his literary debut."
tagline: "British nineteenth century writer of penny dreadfuls (1814–1884)"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1814"
deathDate: "1884"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           42.19
  momentum:             2.121212121212121
  historical:           4.617568
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Malcolm_Rymer"
    title: "James Malcolm Rymer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Malcolm_Rymer"
    title: "James Malcolm Rymer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Malcolm_Rymer"
    title: "James Malcolm Rymer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Malcolm_Rymer"
    title: "James Malcolm Rymer"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/08a39470-1b13-4817-9790-94098c595f8f"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3161246"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump