William Harrison Ainsworth

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Standard Name: Ainsworth, William Harrison

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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
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
Family and Intimate relationships Harriet Smythies
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...
Friends, Associates William Makepeace Thackeray
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...
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...
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
Intertextuality and Influence Ellen Wood
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...
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.
262
Voller, Jack. “The Ellen Wood (Mrs Henry Wood) Website”. The Literary Gothic: Wood, Ellen Price (Mrs. Henry).

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