Male : Novelist (39 in total). Married the daughter of the London bookseller John Ebers

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Manchester, Lancashire

Date of Birth : 1805 Date of Death : 1882 Age : 77

Pseudonyms : Will Brown. Cheviot Ticheburn

Other Work : Journalist. Edited Bentley's Miscellany 1840-2 & Ainsworth's Magazine 1843-53

Education : Manchester GS

1823-1830
The Maid's Revenge (1823 Whittaker) - By Cheviot Ticheburn
December Tales (1823 Whittaker, London) - et al
Sir John Chiverton (1826 John Ebers) - with J P Aston
Letters from Cockney Lands (1826 John Ebers) - 93pp. By Will Brown
(1827 W Sams, London)
Considerations on the Best Means of Affording Immediate Relief to the Operative
Classes in the Manufacturing Districts (1826 John Ebers, London) - 24pp

1831-1840
The Humourist : A Companion for the Christmas Fireside (1831 Ackerman)
Rookwood : A Romance (1834 Bentley) - 3 vols
[Filmed in 1933 as "Dick Turpin"]
Crichton : An Historical Romance (1837 Bentley) - 3 vols
Jack Sheppard : A Romance (1839 Bentley) (1839 Phila) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
Offered in 1999 for £400
The Tower of London : A Historical Romance (1840 Bentley) - George Cruikshank
Talbot Harland (184 ? J Dicks) - 108pp - F Gilbert

1841-1850
Old St Paul's : A Tale of the Plague & Fire of London (1841 Hugh Cunningham) - 3 vols
Guy Fawkes (1841 Richard Bentley) - 3 vols
(In) The Pic Nic Papers : Edited by Charles Dickens : The Old London Merchant (1841 Colburn) -3 vols
Ainsworth's Magazine : A Miscellany of Romance, General Literature & Art
(1842-48 Hugh Cunningham, London) - 14 vols. George Cruikshank
The Miser's Daughter (1842 Cunningham & Mortimer) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
Windsor Castle (1843 Colburn) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank & Tony Johannot
Modern Chivalry (1843 John Mortimer, London) - 2 vols. with Mrs Gore
St James's or, The Court of Queen Anne (1844 John Mortimer) - 3 vols. George Cruikshank
The Lancashire Witches (1848 PP, London(1849 Colburn)
James the Second (1848 Colburn) - 3 vols
The Works (1850-1 Chapman & Hall) - 14 vols

1851-1860
The Star Chamber : An Historical Romance (1854 Routledge) - 2 vols
The Flitch of Bacon, or the Custom of Dunmow (1854 Routledge) - John Gilbert
Ballads : Romantic, Fantastical & Humorous (1855 Routledge) - 7 plates by John Gilbert
The Spendthrift : A Tale (1857 Routledge) - Hablot K Brown
Mervyn Clitheroe (1858 Routledge) - Hablot K Brown
The Combat of the Thirty (1859 Chapman & Hall) - 32pp
Ovingdean Grange : A Tale of the South Downs (1860 Routledge) - Hablot K Browne
Historical Novels (c1860 Routledge) - 16 vols
Offered in 1998 for £600

1861-1870
The Constable of the Tower (1861 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Views of the Devil's Dyke (1862 London)
The Lord Mayor of London, or City Life in the Last Century (1862 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £450
Cardinal Pole, or the Days of Philip & Mary (1863 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £300
John Law the Projector (1864 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The Spanish Match, or Charles Stuart in Madrid (1865 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Auriol, or The Elixir of Life (1865 Routledge)
The Constable de Bourbon (1866 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Old Court (1867 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
The South Sea Bubble (1868 Tauchnitz)
Myddleton Pomfret (1868 Chapman & Hall) - 3 vols
Hilary St Ives (1869 Tauchnitz)
Talbot Harland (1870 John Dicks Sixpenny English Novels)

1871-1875
Tower Hill (1871 John Dicks)
The South Sea Bubble (1871 John Dicks)
Boscobel or, the Royal Oak (1872 Tinsley Bros) - 3 vols
The Good Old Times (1873 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Manchester Rebels, or The Fatal '45 (1874 Tinsley)
Merry England, or Nobles and Serfs (1874 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Goldsmith's Wife (1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Preston Fight, or The Insurrection of 1715 (1875 Tinsley) - 3 vols

1876-1880
The League of Lathom : A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire (1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Chetwynd Calverley (1876 Tinsley) - 3 vols
The Fall of Somerset (1877 Tinsley) - 3 vols
Beatrice Tyldesley (1878 Tinsley) - 3 vols
(1878 Tinsley) - 3 vols in 1
Offered in 1999 for £250
Beau Nash (1879 Routledge) - 3 vols

AFTER 1881
Stanley Brereton (1881 Routledge) - 3 vols
Offered in 1999 for £400
Novels (1903 J F Taylor, NY) - 20 vols

READING
W E A Axon : William Harrison Ainsworth - A Memoir (1902 Gibbings, London)
Stewart M Ellis : William Harrison Ainsworth & His Friends (1911 John Lane) - 2 vols
Harold Locke : Bibliographical Catalogue of the Published Novels of Ainsworth
(1925 Elkin Mathews)
George J Worth : William Harrison Ainsworth (1972 Twayne)