Author:William Harrison Ainsworth

William Harrison Ainsworth
(1805–1882)

William Harrison Ainsworth

Works

• The Rivals, a Serio-Comic Tragedy (under the pseudonym "T. Hall")
• The Spectre Bride (published in 1821 as The Baron's Bridal; republished anonymously in 1822 as The Spectre Bride)
• Sir John Chiverton (1826, with John Partington Aston)
• Rookwood (1834) (transcription project)
• The Admirable Crichton (1837)
• Jack Sheppard: A Romance (1839) (external scan)
• The Tower of London (1840)
• Guy Fawkes (1841)
• Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and Fire (1841)
• The Miser's Daughter (1842)
• Windsor Castle, illustrated by George Cruikshank, Tony Johannot and William Alfred Delamotte (1843) (start transcription)
• Saint James's (1844)
• Auriol, published in serial form as Revelations of London (1844) [1]
  • A Night in Rome (external scan) was appended to Auriol in an 1856 edition
• James the Second (1848)
• The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest, serialized in Sunday Times (1848)
  • published by Henry Colburn, in three volumes (1849) (external scan), (external scan), (external scan)
  • published by George Routledge and Sons, Limited, (1897) (start transcription)
• The Flitch of Bacon (1854)
• The Star Chamber: An Historical Romance (1854)
• The Spendthrift (1857)
• The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe (1858)
• The Combat of the Thirty (1859)
• Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs (1860)
• The Constable of the Tower (1861) (start transcription)
• The Lord Mayor of London (1862)
• Cardinal Pole (1863)
• John Law (1864)
• The Spanish Match (1865)
• The Constable de Bourbon (1866)
• Old Court (1867)
• Myddleton Pomfret (1868)
• Hilary St. Ives (1870)
• Tower Hill (1871)
• The South-Sea Bubble (1871)
• Talbot Harland (1871)
• Boscobel (1872) (external scan)
• The Good Old Times (1873)
• Merry England (1874)
• The Goldsmith's Wife (1875)
• Preston Fight; or, The Insurrection of 1715 (1875)
• The Leaguer of Lathom: A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire (1876)
• Chetwynd Calverley: A Tale (1876)
• The Fall of Somerset (1877)
• Beatrice Tyldesley (1878)
• Beau Nash (1879)
• Stanley Brereton (1881)

As editor

• Bentley's Miscellany, 1839 to December 1841, 1854 to 1868
• Ainsworth's Magazine, 1842 to 1854 - Volume One
• New Monthly Magazine, June 1845 to 1870

Works about Ainsworth

• "Ainsworth, William Harrison," in Collier's New Encyclopedia, New York: P. F. Collier & Son Co. (1921)
• "Ainsworth, William Harrison," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• "Ainsworth, William Harrison," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Ainsworth, William Harrison," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)
• "Ainsworth, William Harrison," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Ainsworth, William," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Harrison Ainsworth," in Cartoon portraits and biographical sketches of men of the day, by anonymous, illustrated by Frederick Waddy, London: Tinsley Brothers (1873)