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Description:William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882) is probably the most successful 19th Century writer that most people haven't heard of. Journalist, essayist, poet and, most of all, historical novelist, Ainsworth was a member of the early-Victorian publishing elite, and Charles Dickens's only serious commercial rival until the late-1840s, his novels Rookwood and Jack Shepherd beginning a fashion for tales of Georgian highwaymen and establishing the legend of Dick Turpin firmly in the National Myth.He was in the Dickens' circle before it was the Dickens' circle and counted among his friends the literary lions of his age: men like Charles Lamb, J.G. Lockhart, Leigh Hunt, W.M. Thackeray and, of course, Dickens; the publishers Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley; and the artists Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank, and 'Phiz' (Hablot K. Browne). He also owned and edited 'Bentley's Miscellany' (whose editorship he assumed after Dickens), the 'New Monthly Magazine', and 'Ainsworth's Magazine'. In his heyday, Ainsworth commanded a massive audience until a moral panic - the so-called 'Newgate Controversy' - about the supposedly pernicious effects on working class youth of the criminal romances on which his reputation was built effectively destroyed his reputation as a serious literary novelist.As a popular writer and publisher whose life ran the course of the century, from Romantic innocence to Victorian experience, Ainsworth's story is very much also the story of the development of the English novel, perhaps just as much as that story belongs to Dickens. But it is a story rarely told, at lest until now.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Author Who Outsold Dickens: The Life and Work of W.H. Ainsworth. To get started finding The Author Who Outsold Dickens: The Life and Work of W.H. Ainsworth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 287

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Release: 2020

ISBN: 1526720698

Description: William Harrison Ainsworth (1805 - 1882) is probably the most successful 19th Century writer that most people haven't heard of. Journalist, essayist, poet and, most of all, historical novelist, Ainsworth was a member of the early-Victorian publishing elite, and Charles Dickens's only serious commercial rival until the late-1840s, his novels Rookwood and Jack Shepherd beginning a fashion for tales of Georgian highwaymen and establishing the legend of Dick Turpin firmly in the National Myth.He was in the Dickens' circle before it was the Dickens' circle and counted among his friends the literary lions of his age: men like Charles Lamb, J.G. Lockhart, Leigh Hunt, W.M. Thackeray and, of course, Dickens; the publishers Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley; and the artists Sir John Gilbert, George Cruikshank, and 'Phiz' (Hablot K. Browne). He also owned and edited 'Bentley's Miscellany' (whose editorship he assumed after Dickens), the 'New Monthly Magazine', and 'Ainsworth's Magazine'. In his heyday, Ainsworth commanded a massive audience until a moral panic - the so-called 'Newgate Controversy' - about the supposedly pernicious effects on working class youth of the criminal romances on which his reputation was built effectively destroyed his reputation as a serious literary novelist.As a popular writer and publisher whose life ran the course of the century, from Romantic innocence to Victorian experience, Ainsworth's story is very much also the story of the development of the English novel, perhaps just as much as that story belongs to Dickens. But it is a story rarely told, at lest until now.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with The Author Who Outsold Dickens: The Life and Work of W.H. Ainsworth. To get started finding The Author Who Outsold Dickens: The Life and Work of W.H. Ainsworth, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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