William Harrison Ainsworth bibliography

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

## Novels

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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 | 1898 edition at the Internet Archive
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 |  | 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
James the Second | London: Colburn, 1848 | Three volumes | 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
The Lancashire Witches | London: Colburn, 1849 |  | Gutenberg
Auriol | London: Chapman & Hall, 1850 |  | 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
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 | 1880 edition at the Internet Archive
The Lord Mayor of London | London: Chapman & Hall, 1862. Set in the reign of George III of the United Kingdom | Three volumes | 1880 edition at the Internet Archive
Cardinal Pole; or, The Days of Philip & Mary | London: Chapman & Hall, 1863 | Three volumes | 1865 edition at the Internet Archive
1876 edition at the Internet Archive
John Law | London: Chapman & Hall, 1864 | Three volumes | 1867 edition at the Internet Archive
The Spanish Match | London: Chapman & Hall, 1865 | Three volumes | 1883 edition at the Internet Archive
The Constable de Bourbon | London: Chapman & Hall, 1866 | Three volumes | 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
Old Court | London: Chapman & Hall, 1867 | Three Volumes |
Myddleton Pomfret | London: Chapman & Hall, 1868 | Three Volumes | 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
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
1875 edition at the Internet Archive
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 | 1877 edition at the Internet Archive
Chetwynd Calverley | London: Tinsley, 1876 | Three volumes | 1877 edition at the Internet Archive
The Leaguer of Lathom | London: Tinsley, 1876 | Three volumes | 1878 edition at the Internet Archive
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 | 1881 |  |
Sources: A Dictionary of Writers and their Works; Sadleir's XIX Century Fiction[1][2][3]

## Other works

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* 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

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### Citations

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1. ^ Cox, Michael, ed. (2001), "Ainsworth, William Harrison", A Dictionary of Writers and their Works, Oxford University Press, retrieved 2 March 2009
2. ^ Sadleir, Michael (1951) XIX Century Fiction: a bibliographical record based on his own collection. 2 vols. London: Constable
3. ^ Jarndyce Booksellers' catalogue XIX Century Fiction. Part 1: A–K (Bloomsbury, London, 2019).

### Bibliography

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* 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

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Wikisource has original works by or about:
William Harrison Ainsworth

* Online works by Ainsworth, at the Online Books site: http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/book/lookupname?key=Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882&c=x