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The Greatest Works of William Harrison Ainsworth
This edition includes: Novels: Rookwood Jack Sheppard The Tower of London Guy Fawkes Old Saint Paul's The Miser's Daughter Windsor Castle The Lancashire Witches Auriol The Star Chamber Ovingdean Grange Cardinal Pole The Constable de Bourbon Boscobel The Good Old Times (The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45) Preston Fight The Leaguer of Lathom Chetwynd Calverley Short Stories: The Spectre Bride The Old London Merchant A Night's Adventure in Rome
The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1850-1882
William Harrison Ainsworth, a prolific writer now as obscure as he once was famous, reinvented the gothic novel in an English setting, a radical re-write of Scott's model of the historical romance and an antecedent of the contemporary urban gothic of Dickens and Reynolds. This study examines Ainsworth's literary career from a writer of magazine tales of terror in the 1820s to the massive influence of his gothic/Newgate romance of 1834, Rookwood; his friendships with Lamb, Lockhart, and Dickens; his fall from literary grace during the Newgate controversy (a moral panic engendered by the supposedly pernicious effects of cheap, theatrical adaptations of Ainsworth's underworld romance Jack Shepp...
Essential Novelists - William Harrison Ainsworth
Welcome to the Essential Novelists book series, were we present to you the best works of remarkable authors. For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the two most important and meaningful novels of William Harrison Ainsworth which are The Spectre Bride and Jack Sheppard. William Harrison Ainsworth was an English author of popular historical romances. Novels selected for this book: - The Lancashire Witches - Jack SheppardThis is one of many books in the series Essential Novelists. If you liked this book, look for the other titles in the series, we are sure you will like some of the authors
John Law, the Projector. By: William Harrison Ainsworth
William Harrison Ainsworth (4 February 1805 - 3 January 1882) was an English historical novelist born at King Street in Manchester. He trained as a lawyer, but the legal profession held no attraction for him. While completing his legal studies in London he met the publisher John Ebers, at that time manager of the King's Theatre, Haymarket. Ebers introduced Ainsworth to literary and dramatic circles, and to his daughter, who became Ainsworth's wife. Ainsworth briefly tried the publishing business, but soon gave it up and devoted himself to journalism and literature. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, which features Dick Turpin as its leading character. A stream of 39 no...
