William Harrison Ainsworth

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Standard Name: Ainsworth, William Harrison

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Publishing Ellen Wood
EW 's first identified publication, Seven Years in the Wedded Life of a Roman Catholic appeared in Harrison Ainsworth'sNew Monthly Magazine.
Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press.
5: 853
Publishing Charles Dickens
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
Publishing Ellen Wood
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...
Publishing Ellen Wood
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.
Wood, C. W. Memorials of Mrs. Henry Wood. R. Bentley and Son.
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Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry).
Reception Emma Robinson
Henry Fothergill Chorley in his Athenæum review called the novel a tale of terror and adventure, just right for Christmas reading.
Athenæum. J. Lection.
844 (1843): 1159
The review is listed as by Chorley. Henry's brother John Rutter Chorley
Residence Ouida
Ouida was living at Bessborough House, Ravenscourt Park, Hammersmith, where she met her first publisher, William Harrison Ainsworth (then editor of Bentley's Miscellany).
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 242
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Textual Production Jeanette Winterson
These witches (seven women and a man) were judicially murdered in 1612. The same incident was treated by another novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth , in 1849 in The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest...
Textual Production Charles Dickens
It entertained readers through serialised fiction, biographical sketches, travel logs, and articles on current affairs. The journal eschewed politics, and tended to draw work from authors published by its owner, Richard Bentley . Following a...
Textual Production Mary Shelley
Harrison Ainsworth , who edited the first Keepsake, admired MS 's work.
Crook, Nora. “Sleuthing towards a Mary Shelley Canon”. Women’s Writing, Vol.
6
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