William Harrison Ainsworth
Author · 4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882

William Harrison Ainsworth

An English historical novelist born in Manchester.

Works

Old Saint Paul's, a tale of the plague & the fire.
1800
The Lancashire witches
1849
Windsor Castle
1800
Jack Sheppard: A Romance; Volume One
1839
The Star-chamber: An Historical Romance
1800
Rookwood
1800
The Tower of London
1800
Auriol
1844
Crichton
1800
Guy Fawkes; or, The gunpowder treason
1800
The miser's daughter, a tale
1800
Ovingdean grange
1800
Boscobel
1800
The flitch of bacon
1800
The spendthrift, a tale.
1800
Saint James's
1844
The Constable of the Tower.
1820
Preston fight
1875
John Law.
1800
The leaguer of Lathom
1876
Mervyn Clitheroe.
1800
The Constable de Bourbon
1866
The lord mayor of London
1862
Bentley's Miscellany
2015
The Manchester rebels of the fatal '45
1874
Ballads: romantic, fantastical, and humorous.
1855
Cardinal Pole, or, The days of Philip and Mary
1800
The South-Sea bubble. With nineteen illus. by Edward Henry Corbould.
1868
Merry England
1874
The Admirable Crichton
1900
Beau Nash, or, Bath in the eighteenth century
1879
Talbot Harland.
1800
The Spanish match
1865
Bentley's Miscellany
1837
Guy Fawkes: or the Gunpowder Treason; Volume One
1900
Stanley Brereton
1881
goldsmith's wife
1863
Bentley's Miscellany
1840
Hilary St. Ives
1869
Old court
1867
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