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AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (1805-1882)

This article appears in Volume V01, Page 441 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: ADA-AIZ
AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON (1805-1882) , English novelist, son of
Thomas
 
Ainsworth
 , solicitor, was born at Manchester on the 4th of February 18o5. He was educated at Manchester Grammar School and articled to the firm of which his father was a member, proceeding to London in 1824 to complete his legal training at the Inner Temple. At the age of twenty-one he married a daughter of John
Ebers
  the publisher, and started in his father-in-law's line of business. This, however, soon proved unprofitable and he decided to attempt literary
work
 . A novel called Sir John Chiverton, in which he appears to have had a share, had attracted the praise of Sir Walter Scott, and this encouragement decided him to take up fiction as a career. In 1834 he published Rookwood, which had an immediate success, and thenceforth he was always occupied with the compilation of " historical " novels. He published about
forty
  such stories, of which the best-known are Jack Sheppard (1839), The Tower of London (184o), Guy Fawkes (1841), Old St Paul's (1841) and Windsor Castle (1843). He edited
Bentley
 's Miscellany, in which Jack Sheppard was published as a serial, and in 1842 he became proprietor of
Ainsworth
 's Magazine. In 1853 it ceased to appear, and Ainsworth bought the New Monthly Magazine. He continued his literary activity until his death, but his later stories were less striking than the earlier ones. He died at
Reigate
  on the 3rd of January 1882 and was buried at Kensal Green. Ainsworth had a lively talent for
plot
 , and his books have many attractive qualities. The glorification of Dick Turpin in Rookwood, and of Jack Sheppard in the novel that bears his name, caused considerable outcry among straitlaced elders. In his later novels Ainsworth confined himself to heroes less open to criticism. His style was not without archaic affectation and awkwardness, but when his energies were aroused by a striking situation he could be brisk, vigorous and impressive. He did a
great
  deal to
interest
  the less educated classes in the historical romances of their country, and his tales were invariably instructive, clean and manly.


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