William Harrison Ainsworth

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Standard Name: Ainsworth, William Harrison

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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
, No. 3, pp. 413-24.
416-17
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.
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
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 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 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
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.
262
Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry).
Publishing Ouida
Ouida met the editor of Bentley's, William Harrison Ainsworth , in late 1858 or early 1859. Dr Francis W. Ainsworth , a neighbour of hers in Hammersmith, was his cousin.
Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder.
Publishing Ouida
It had been serialized in Colburn 's New Monthly Magazine (then edited by William Harrison Ainsworth ) under the title Granville de Vigne from January 1861 to June 1863.
Allibone, S. Austin, editor. A Critical Dictionary of English Literature and British and American Authors Living and Deceased. Gale Research.
Nadel, Ira Bruce, and William E. Fredeman, editors. Dictionary of Literary Biography 18. Gale Research.
18: 242
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 370
Cox, Michael, editor. The Oxford Chronology of English Literature. Oxford University Press.
With Ouida's...
Publishing Ouida
Ouida wanted to call this novel (first serialized in the New Monthly Magazine) The Lady of His Dreams, but was dissuaded by the Monthly's editor, William Harrison Ainsworth .
Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale Research.
43: 370
Occupation Mary Elizabeth Braddon
She played Winifred Wood in an adaptation of Harrison Ainsworth 's Jack Sheppard opposite Mary Anne Keeley in her famous breeches role as Jack.
Later, under Chart , MEB herself played the breeches part of...
Leisure and Society Eliza Lynn Linton
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...
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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...

Timeline

17 August 1612: The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted...

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17 August 1612

The trial of the Lancashire witches resulted in the execution of seven women and one man.

12 March to 25 May 1644: In her husband's absence the royalist Countess...

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12 March to 25 May 1644

In her husband 's absence the royalist Countess of Derby , born a Huguenot Frenchwoman, successfully stood a siege at Lathom House in Lancashire (a towered and moated building).

3 June 1829: Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership...

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3 June 1829

Publisher Henry Colburn went into partnership with Richard Bentley (1794 - ­1871) (who, in order to do this, had just dissolved the partnership between himself and his brother Samuel Bentley as printers).

3 May 1834: William Harrison Ainsworth published his...

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3 May 1834

William Harrison Ainsworth published his hugely successful first novel, Rookwood.

4 November 1836: Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement...

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4 November 1836

Richard Bentley (1794-1871) signed an agreement with Dickens to edit his new monthly periodical, Bentley's Miscellany.

February 1842: The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine:...

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February 1842

The first issue of Ainsworth's Magazine: A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, & Art appeared, catering to popular Victorian taste in entertainment and literature.

By 6 January 1849: William Harrison Ainsworth's historical novel...

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By 6 January 1849

William Harrison Ainsworth 's historicalnovelThe Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest (about a real witch-hunt of 1612) appeared in volume form.

December 1868: With sales of the once-popular Bentley's...

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December 1868

With sales of the once-popular Bentley's Miscellany at an all-time low, the owner, Richard Bentley , ended its publication.

Texts

Hutton, Catherine. “A Sketch of A Family of Originals”. Ainsworth’s Magazine, edited by William Harrison Ainsworth, Vol.
5
, pp. 56-63.