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William Harrison Ainsworth

Male : Novelist (39 in total). Married the daughter of the London bookseller John Ebers
Nationality : English Place of Birth : Manchester, Lancashire

Date of Birth : 1805 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 77

Pseudonyms : Will Brown. Cheviot Ticheburn

Other Work : Journalist. Edited Bentley's Miscellany 1840-2 & Ainsworth's Magazine 1843-53

Education : Manchester GS
1823-1830
The Maid's Revenge
(1823 Whittaker) - By Cheviot Ticheburn
December Tales
(1823 Whittaker, London) - et al
Sir John Chiverton
(1826 John Ebers) - with J P Aston
Letters from Cockney Lands
(1826 John Ebers) - 93pp. By Will Brown
(1827 W Sams, London)
Considerations on the Best Means of Affording Immediate Relief to the Operative
Classes in the Manufacturing Districts
(1826 John Ebers, London) - 24pp

1831-1840
The Humourist : A Companion for the Christmas Fireside
(1831 Ackerman)
Rookwood : A Romance
(1834 Bentley) - 3 vols
[Filmed in 1933 as "Dick Turpin"]
Crichton : An Historical Romance
(1837 Bentley) - 3 vols
Jack Sheppard : A Romance
(1839 Bentley) (1839 Phila) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
Offered in 1999 for £400
The Tower of London : A Historical Romance
(1840 Bentley) - George Cruikshank
Talbot Harland
(184 ? J Dicks) - 108pp - F Gilbert

1841-1850
Old St Paul's : A Tale of the Plague & Fire of London
(1841 Hugh Cunningham) - 3 vols
Guy Fawkes
(1841 Richard Bentley) - 3 vols
(In) The Pic Nic Papers : Edited by Charles Dickens : The Old London Merchant (1841 Colburn) -3 vols
Ainsworth's Magazine : A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature & Art
(1842-48 Hugh Cunningham, London) - 14 vols. George Cruikshank
The Miser's Daughter
(1842 Cunningham & Mortimer) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
Windsor Castle
(1843 Colburn) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank & Tony Johannot
Modern Chivalry
(1843 John Mortimer, London) - 2 vols. with Mrs Gore
St James's or, The Court of Queen Anne
(1844 John Mortimer) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
The Lancashire Witches
(1848 PP, London(1849 Colburn)
James the Second
(1848 Colburn) - 3 vols
The Works
(1850-1 Chapman & Hall) - 14 vols

1851-1860
The Star Chamber : An Historical Romance
(1854 Routledge) - 2 vols
The Flitch of Bacon, or the Custom of Dunmow
(1854 Routledge) - John Gilbert
Ballads : Romantic, Fantastical & Humorous
(1855 Routledge) - 7 plates by John Gilbert
The Spendthrift : A Tale
(1857 Routledge) - Hablot K Brown
Mervyn Clitheroe
(1858 Routledge) - Hablot K Brown
The Combat of the Thirty
(1859 Chapman & Hall) - 32pp
Ovingdean Grange : A Tale of the South Downs
(1860 Routledge) - Hablot K Browne
Historical Novels
(c1860 Routledge) - 16 vols
Offered in 1998 for £600

1861-1870
The Constable of the Tower
(1861 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Views of the Devil's Dyke
(1862 London)
The Lord Mayor of London, or City Life in the Last Century
(1862 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £450
Cardinal Pole, or the Days of Philip & Mary
(1863 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £300
John Law the Projector
(1864 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The Spanish Match, or Charles Stuart in Madrid
(1865 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life
(1865 Routledge)
The Constable de Bourbon
(1866 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Old Court
(1867 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The South Sea Bubble
(1868 Tauchnitz)
Myddleton Pomfret
(1868 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Hilary St Ives
(1869 Tauchnitz)
Talbot Harland
(1870 John Dicks Sixpenny English Novels)

1871-1875
Tower Hill
(1871 John Dicks)
The South Sea Bubble
(1871 John Dicks)
Boscobel or, the Royal Oak
(1872 Tinsley Bros) - 3 vols
The Good Old Times
(1873 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Manchester Rebels, or The Fatal '45
(1874 Tinsley)
Merry England, or Nobles and Serfs
(1874 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Goldsmith's Wife
(1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Preston Fight, or The Insurrection of 1715
(1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols

1876-1880
The League of Lathom : A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire
(1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Chetwynd Calverley
(1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Fall of Somerset
(1877 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Beatrice Tyldesley
(1878 Tinsley) - 3 vols
(1878 Tinsley) - 3 vols in 1
Offered in 1999 for £250
Beau Nash
(1879 Routledge) - 3 vols

AFTER 1881
Stanley Brereton
(1881 Routledge) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £400
Novels
(1903 J F Taylor, NY) - 20 vols

READING
W E A Axon : William Harrison Ainsworth - A Memoir
(1902 Gibbings, London)
Stewart M Ellis : William Harrison Ainsworth & His Friends
(1911 John Lane) - 2 vols
Harold Locke : Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels of Ainsworth
(1925 Elkin Mathews)
George J Worth : William Harrison Ainsworth
(1972 Twayne)