| Birth: | Feb. 4, 1805 | | Death: | Jan. 3, 1882 | 
Author. Born on King Street, Manchester, he was educated at the Manchester Grammar School and, at the age of sixteen, was articled to a solicitor. In 1824 his father died, and he went to London to study at the Inner Temple. In 1826 he married daughter of a publisher who was also the Manager of the Opera House. At his father-in-law's suggestion, Ainsworth went into business as a publisher, but abandoned this career after about eighteen months. Instead, he devoted himself to writing a series of historical novels. The first of these was "Rookwood" (1831), which includes a famous description of Dick Turpin's ride to York on Black Bess. The best known of his other thirty-eight books are "The Tower of London" (1840); "Old St. Paul's" (1841); and "The Flitch of Bacon, or the Custom of Dunmow" (1854). He died at Reigate in Surrey. (bio by: Iain MacFarlaine)
Search Amazon for Harrison Ainsworth | | | Burial:
Kensal Green Cemetery
Kensal Green
Greater London, England
Plot: 3443 |
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Originally Created by: Iain MacFarlaine
Record added: Feb 03, 2005
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Congradulations on helping to establish the "Newgate" School of novels in the 1830s and 1840s with Dickens and Thackeray. By the way, Poe put you into his "Flying Machine" in his "Balloon Hoax" story.
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