William Harrison Ainsworth
Birth date: February 04, 1805
Died: January 03, 1882
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bookshelves: re-read, play-dramatisation, summer-2010, historical-fiction Read in December, 2008 Saturday Play: Boscobel 29-11-2008A dramatisation by Ian Curteis of the real-life escape of Charles II. Following the execution of his father, the future Charles II must flee England or die. Over a th...
Cardinal Pole, the title figure, is a bit of a cipher, other than being a 'nice guy' but on the (implicitly) wrong side. Ainsworth tries to present his narrative voice as entirely neutral in the vicious Catholic/Protestant culture wars of the period he's writing about, but his choice of terms occasi...
Ainsworth is, I'm sure most would agree, a minor author, and this is minor Ainsworth. It doesn't have either the supernatural elements or the fascination with true crime/gore that liven up his pedestrian prose in other parts of his canon. This is strictly a society novel, and one that's structurally...
Saturday Play: Boscobel 29-11-2008A dramatisation by Ian Curteis of the real-life escape of Charles II. Following the execution of his father, the future Charles II must flee England or die. Over a thrilling 40-day journey, young Charles has to learn how to live rough, how to evade capture and how t...
[These notes were made in 1986. I read a 19th-century edition with George Cruikshank's illustrations:]. George Cruikshank's illustrations - and there is an extraordinary number of them - play a very large part in this novel, tho' a somewhat disorienting one, rather like Ainsworth's text itself. For...
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