William Harrison Ainsworth

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Standard Name: Ainsworth, William Harrison

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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
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
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 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.
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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...

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