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Hace 4 días · William Harrison Ainsworth, who set his novel about the early 18th-century highwayman, Jack Sheppard, in Willesden, described it as he knew it in the 1830s as 'the most charming and secluded village in the neighbourhood of the metropolis', commenting on the 'grove of rookhaunted trees' and the old buildings of the church and rectory.
Hace 1 día · William Harrison was a prominent Elizabethan intellectual, best known for his ‘Description of Britain’, included in the second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587). He was also the author of a ‘Chronology’ of world history outlining the apocalyptic battle between the true, spiritual Protestant Church and the corrupt, worldly ...
Hace 5 días · The whole career of crime as practised by this vagabond carpenter has been strikingly told by Mr. Harrison Ainsworth, in his romance of "Jack Sheppard;" and his portrait, as he appeared in the condemned cell at Newgate, was painted by Sir James Thornhill, and sold by thousands as a mezzo-tint engraving. Jonathan Wild's particular sphere of ...
Hace 2 días · With over 250,000 hand-picked First edition, Antiquarian and out-of-print titles in an exhaustive range of subjects, there is sure to be something to catch the eye of the bibliophile, the avid researcher or the casual reader. BZDB318 Unbranded Ainsworth, William Harrison Windsor Castle.
Hace 1 día · This hero of modern thieves (mischievously immortalised by Mr. Harrison Ainsworth) had been condemned to death with a rogue named Blueskin, for stealing cloth from a Mr. Kneebone, a draper in the Strand, to whom Sheppard had formerly been apprenticed. The whole story of his adventures shows the loose discipline of Newgate at the time.
Hace 1 día · He began a friendship with William Harrison Ainsworth, the author of the highwayman novel Rookwood (1834), whose bachelor salon in Harrow Road had become the meeting place for a set that included Daniel Maclise, Benjamin Disraeli, Edward Bulwer-Lytton and George Cruikshank.
Hace 1 día · Readers can enjoy several works of fiction including an abridged version of Mary Shelley’s The Last Man (1826), a reproduction in full of Jack London’s Scarlet Plague (1912), as well as short pandemic stories from Edgar Allan Poe, George W.M. Reynolds, Daniel Defoe, and William Harrison Ainsworth.
