William Harrison Ainsworth

KBG and her elder brother were both educated at home under their mother's excellent tutelage until Katharine was ten and her brother was twelve. Their rigorous programme of education required the nine-year-old Katharine to read...

Her next school was the Select Seminary for Young Ladies and Gentlemen (a school that counted its pupils in single figures and was run by a trio of very young sisters). Frances was good at...

After she began her career as a novelist, HS moved in literary circles, allegedly repelling the advances of William Harrison Ainsworth and entering into a close friendship with Lord Lytton . Literary historian Montague Summers...

As one of the leading literary figures of the period, CD had an extensive social network. His early acquaintances in publishing included Richard Bentley , William Harrison Ainsworth , and John Forster (who later became...

Before her marriage CN had formed a friendship with the Irish poet Tom Moore , once a crony of her famous grandfather; this friendship endured into her middle age. It was also as Richard Brinsley...

Aside from her mother, Ouida kept mainly male company. Her circle included (in addition to her publishers William Harrison Ainsworth and William Tinsley ) A. C. Swinburne , Richard Monckton Milnes (famed for his large...

WMT was close to both of his surviving daughters, and was particularly proud when Anne 's first publication, the article Little Scholars, which appeared anonymously in the Cornhill Magazine. He was a sociable...

According to EW 's son and biographer Charles Wood , William Harrison Ainsworth , as proprietor of Bentley's Miscellany and the New Monthly Magazine, had early in her career dissuaded her from writing a...

Waters argues that MEB ought not to be condemned for clichés that she herself helped to establish. Rather we should examine them and the genre of the detective or sensation novel as an index of...

SB wrote most of this book during her residence in Warwickshire, and completed it in Ireland in the year she attended her dying mother. Her preface mentions her motivation to bring this work...

In London, Eliza Lynn drank in artistic life. She championed the singing of Jenny Lind against those who preferred Alboni or Malibran. She performed for Samuel Laurence the role of uninformed art critic or foolometer...

She played Winifred Wood in an adaptation of Harrison Ainsworth 's Jack Sheppard opposite Mary Anne Keeley in her famous breeches role as Jack.

Serialisation in monthly parts significantly broadened the readership of The Pickwick Papers and meant that it was reviewed more widely than it would have been in volume form. Ironically, such cheapening of literature (CD

The novel had been twice offered to the publishing house of Chapman and Hall , and was recommended by William Harrison Ainsworth . After their reader (novelist George Meredith ) twice rejected it, EW took...

EW received £60 for the serial rights to The Shadow of Ashlydyat: it was first published in the New Monthly Magazine, at that point still edited by Ainsworth , between October 1861 and November 1863.