Rookwood

Name: Rookwood
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth

by William Harrison Ainsworth

Gothic novel of a highwayman's dark supernatural curse and his graveyard hauntings

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William Harrison Ainsworth

Ainsworth was a highly popular Victorian novelist who romanticised English criminal history in the manner of a Gothic adventure story. His Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard became popular legends through his colourful retelling.

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