This is a list of works by the English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882).
Novels
+ Title First publication Publication Type Online textSir John Chiverton London: Ebers, 1826 Single volume Rookwood London: Bentley, 1834 Three volumes GutenbergCrichton London: Bentley, 1837 Three volumes Jack Sheppard London: Bentley, 1839 Three volumes GutenbergThe Tower of London London: Bentley, 1840 Two volumes Guy Fawkes London: Bentley, 1841 Three volumes GutenbergOld Saint Paul's London: Cunningham, 1841 Three volumes GutenbergThe Miser's Daughter London: Cunningham, 1842 Three volumes Windsor Castle London: Colburn, 1842 Three Volumes GutenbergSt James's London: John Mortimer, 1844 Three volumes James the Second London: Colburn, 1848 Three volumesThe Lancashire Witches London: Colburn, 1849 Three Volumes GutenbergAuriol London: Chapman & Hall, 1850 Single volume The Flitch of Bacon London: Routledge, 1854 Single volumeThe Star-Chamber London: Routledge, 1854 Two volumes Volume 1 ,Gutenberg Volume 2 ,GutenbergThe Spendthrift London: Routledge, 1857. Set in the 18th century Single volume The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe London: Routledge, 1858 Single volume Ovingdean Grange London: Routledge, 1860 Single volume The Constable of the Tower London: Chapman & Hall, 1861 Three volumesThe Lord Mayor of London London: Chapman & Hall, 1862. Set in the reign of George III of the United Kingdom Three volumesCardinal Pole London: Chapman & Hall, 1863 Three volumesJohn Law London: Chapman & Hall, 1864 Three volumes The Spanish Match London: Chapman & Hall, 1865 Three volumes The Constable de Bourbon London: Chapman & Hall, 1866 Three volumes Old Court London: Chapman & Hall, 1867 Three Volumes Myddleton Pomfret London: Chapman & Hall, 1868 Three Volumes Hilary St. Ives London: Chapman & Hall, 1870 Three Volumes Talbot Harland London: John Dicks, 1870 Single volume The South-Sea Bubble London: John Dicks, 1871 Single volume Tower Hill London: John Dicks, 1871 Single volume Boscobel London: Tinsley, 1872 Three Volumes GutenbergThe Good Old Times London: Tinsley, 1873 Three Volumes (reissued as The Manchester Rebels London: Tinsley, 1874)Merry England: or, Nobles and Serfs London: Tinsley, 1874 Three volumes The Goldsmith's Wife London: Tinsley, 1875 Three volumes Preston Fight: or, The Insurrection of 1715 London: Tinsley, 1875 Three Volumes Chetwynd Calverley London: Tinsley, 1876 Three volumes The Leaguer of Lathom London: Tinsley, 1876 Three volumes The Fall of Somerset London: Tinsley, 1877 Three volumes Beatrice Tyldesley London: Tinsley, 1878, set in the reign of James II of England Three volumes Beau Nash London: Routledge, 1879 Three volumes Stanley Brereton London: Routledge, 1881 Three volumes Sources: A Dictionary of Writers and their Works; Sadleir's XIX Century FictionSadleir, Michael (1951) XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record based on his own collection. 2 vols. London: ConstableJarndyce Booksellers' catalogue XIX Century Fiction. Part 1: A–K (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).
Other works December Tales. London: G. & W. B. Whittaker, 1823 The Combat of the Thirty: From a Breton lay of the fourteenth century; with an introduction, comprising a new chapter of Froissart. London: Chapman & Hall, 1859
References
Citations
Bibliography
Carver, Stephen James (2003) "Ainsworth, William Harrison" in: The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth 1805–1882. Edwin Mellen Press Ellis, S. M. (1911) William Harrison Ainsworth and his Friends. 2 vols. John Lane. ("Bibliography of the works of William Harrison Ainsworth": v. 2, p. 345-383) Locke, Harold (1925) A Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels and Ballads of William Harrison Ainsworth. Elkin Mathews
External links
Online works by Ainsworth, at the Online Books site: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Ainsworth%2c%20William%20Harrison%2c%201805%2d1882&c=x