William Harrison Ainsworth

(1805-1882)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882 NRA: Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882), novelist DNB: Ainsworth, William Harrison (1805-1882), novelist LBT ID: WiAinsw1882 VIAF ID: 46894596 LOC ID: n50034411	B/BAP: 1805-02-04 DIED: 1882-01-03
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Historical novelist who published in the New Monthly Magazine and London Magazine.
REFERENCES TO William Harrison Ainsworth: Robert Plumer Ward to Peter George Patmore, 4 March 1841 in My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) Found 1: ¶ 1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 2: Personal Notes Found 1: ¶ 14 Ch. 14: Private Life Found 1: ¶ 3 W. H. Ainsworth Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 5 Peter George Patmore, My Friends and Acquaintance: being Memorials, Mind-portraits, and Personal Recollections of Deceased Celebrities of the Nineteenth Century; with Selections from their Unpublished Letters 3 vols (London: Saunders and Otley, 1854) R. Plumer Ward XVIII Laman Blanchard VII Found 1: ¶ 10 Redding, Cyrus, 1785-1870, Fifty Years’ Recollections, Literary and Personal, with Observations on Men and Things. 3 vols (London: Charles J. Skeet, 1858) Chapter IV. Found 1: ¶ 54 Chapter VIII. Found 1: ¶ 74 Charles Knight, Passages of a Working Life during Half a Century: with a Prelude of Early Reminiscences 3 vols (London: Bradbury and Evans, 1864-1865) Chapter IX Found 1: ¶ 18 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter VII. 1847-50. Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 16: 1832-36 Found 1: ¶ 5 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1822 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 2 Letters: 1823 Found 2: ¶ 1 ¶ 3 Letters: 1828 Found 1: ¶ 2