William Harrison Ainsworth bibliography

Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth by Daniel Maclise, 1834

This is a list of works by the English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882).

Novels

Title First publication Publication Type Online text
Sir John Chiverton London: Ebers, 1826 (Written in collaboration with J. P. Aston)
Rookwood London: Bentley, 1834 Three volumes Gutenberg
Crichton London: Bentley, 1837 Three volumes 1898 edition at the Internet Archive
Jack Sheppard London: Bentley, 1839 Three volumes Gutenberg
The Tower of London London: Bentley, 1840 Two volumes
Guy Fawkes London: Bentley, 1841 Three volumes Gutenberg
Old Saint Paul's London: Cunningham, 1841 Three volumes Gutenberg
The Miser's Daughter London: Cunningham, 1842 Three volumes
Windsor Castle 1843 Gutenberg
St James's 1844 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
James the Second London: Colburn, 1848 Three volumes 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
The Lancashire Witches London: Colburn, 1849 Gutenberg
Auriol London: Chapman & Hall, 1850 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
The Flitch of Bacon London: Routledge, 1854
The Star-Chamber London: Routledge, 1854 Two volumes Volume 1 ,Gutenberg
Volume 2 ,Gutenberg
The Spendthrift London: Routledge, 1857. Set in the 18th century One Volume
The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe 1858
Ovingdean Grange London: Routledge, 1860
The Constable of the Tower London: Chapman & Hall, 1861 Three volumes 1880 edition at the Internet Archive
The Lord Mayor of London London: Chapman & Hall, 1862. Set in the reign of George III of the United Kingdom Three volumes 1880 edition at the Internet Archive
Cardinal Pole London: Chapman & Hall, 1863 Three volumes 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
1876 edition at the Internet Archive
John Law London: Chapman & Hall, 1864 Three volumes 1867 edition at the Internet Archive
The Spanish Match London: Chapman & Hall, 1865 Three volumes 1883 edition at the Internet Archive
The Constable de Bourbon London: Chapman & Hall, 1866 Three volumes 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
Old Court London: Chapman & Hall, 1867 Three Volumes
Myddleton Pomfret London: Chapman & Hall, 1868 Three Volumes 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
Hilary St. Ives London: Chapman & Hall, 1870 Three Volumes
Talbot Harland London: John Dicks, 1870
The South-Sea Bubble London: John Dicks, 1871
Tower Hill London: John Dicks, 1871
Boscobel London: Tinsley, 1872 Three Volumes Gutenberg
1875 edition at the Internet Archive
The Good Old Times London: Tinsley, 1873 Three Volumes (reissued as The Manchester Rebels London: Tinsley, 1874)
Merry England: or, Nobles and Serfs London: Tinsley, 1874 Three volumes
The Goldsmith's Wife London: Tinsley, 1875 Three volumes
Preston Fight: or, The Insurrection of 1715 London: Tinsley, 1875 Three Volumes 1877 edition at the Internet Archive
Chetwynd Calverley London: Tinsley, 1876 Three volumes 1877 edition at the Internet Archive
The Leaguer of Lathom London: Tinsley, 1876 Three volumes 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
The Fall of Somerset London: Tinsley, 1877 Three volumes
Beatrice Tyldesley London: Tinsley, 1878, set in the reign of James II of England Three volumes
Beau Nash London: Routledge, 1879 Three volumes
Stanley Brereton 1881
Sources: A Dictionary of Writers and their Works; Sadleir's XIX Century Fiction[1][2][3]

Other works

  • December Tales. London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1823
  • The Combat of the Thirty: From a Breton lay of the fourteenth century; with an introduction, comprising a new chapter of Froissart. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859

References

Citations

  1. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2001), "Ainsworth, William Harrison", A Dictionary of Writers and their Works, Oxford University Press, retrieved 2 March 2009
  2. ^ Sadleir, Michael (1951) XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record based on his own collection. 2 vols. London: Constable
  3. ^ Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue XIX Century Fiction. Part 1: A–K (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).

Bibliography

  • Carver, Stephen James (2003) "Ainsworth, William Harrison" in: The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth 1805–1882. Edwin Mellen Press
  • Ellis, S. M. (1911) William Harrison Ainsworth and his Friends. 2 vols. John Lane. ("Bibliography of the works of William Harrison Ainsworth": v. 2, p. 345-383)
  • Locke, Harold (1925) A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels and Ballads of William Harrison Ainsworth. Elkin Mathews
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