William Harrison Ainsworth bibliography explained

This is a list of works by the English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882).

Novels

! Title !! First publication !! Publication Type !! Online text

Sir John Chiverton	London: Ebers, 1826	(Written in collaboration with J. P. Aston)
Rookwood	London: Bentley, 1834	Three volumes	Gutenberg
Crichton	London: Bentley, 1837	Three volumes
Jack Sheppard	London: Bentley, 1839	Three volumes	Gutenberg
The Tower of London	London: Bentley, 1840	Two volumes
Guy Fawkes	London: Bentley, 1841	Three volumes	Gutenberg
Old Saint Paul's	London: Cunningham, 1841	Three volumes	Gutenberg
The Miser's Daughter	London: Cunningham, 1842	Three volumes
Windsor Castle. An historical romance	1843		Gutenberg
St James's	1844
James the Second	London: Colburn, 1848	Three volumes
The Lancashire Witches	London: Colburn, 1849		Gutenberg
Auriol	London: Chapman & Hall, 1850
The Flitch of Bacon	London: Routledge, 1854
The Star-Chamber	London: Routledge, 1854	Two volumes	Volume 1 ,Gutenberg Volume 2 ,Gutenberg
The Spendthrift	London: Routledge, 1857. Set in the 18th century	One Volume
The Life and Adventures of Mervyn Clitheroe	1858
Ovingdean Grange	London: Routledge, 1860
The Constable of the Tower	London: Chapman & Hall, 1861	Three volumes
The Lord Mayor of London		Three volumes
Cardinal Pole or, The Days of Philip & Mary	London: Chapman & Hall, 1863	Three volumes
John 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
The South-Sea Bubble	London: John Dicks, 1871
Tower Hill	London: John Dicks, 1871
Boscobel	London: Tinsley, 1872	Three Volumes	Gutenberg
The 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		Three volumes
Beau Nash	London: Routledge, 1879	Three volumes
Stanley Brereton	1881
Sources: A Dictionary of Writers and their Works; Sadleir's XIX Century Fiction[1] [2]

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

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

Notes and References

1. Sadleir, Michael (1951) XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record based on his own collection. 2 vols. London: Constable
2. Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue XIX Century Fiction. Part 1: A–K (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).