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1 giorno fa · LibriVox recording of Jack Sheppard: A Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth. Read in English by Mark Leder The fictionalized exploits of the very real English outlaw, Jack Sheppard. Published in 1839, this Newgate novel outsold its rival, Dickens' "Oliver Twist". (Summary by Mark Leder)
4 giorni fa · 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.
1 giorno fa · 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.
5 giorni fa · William Harrison was a prominent Elizabethan intellectual, best known for his ‘Description of Britain’, included in the second edition of Holinshed’s Chronicles (1587).
3 lug 2024 · Eliza Touchet è da trent’anni la governante di suo cugino acquisito, William Ainsworth, un romanziere un tempo di grande successo ma ormai caduto in disgrazia e in crisi di ispirazione.
4 giorni fa · 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.
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