Cardinal Pole: or, The Days of Philip and Mary
Sep 2026 · Aeneas Press
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Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby and John Singleton Copley. England under Mary Tudor, the Spanish marriage, the Smithfield fires, and the papal legate sent to bring the country back. Ainsworth wrote it from the state papers and did not spare either side. This edition adds fifty-five plates after painters including Gainsborough, Munch and Thomas Barker, and four illustrations restored and coloured for the volume.
Complete and unabridged, with 55 full-page plates by Richard Wilson, Joseph Wright of Derby and John Singleton Copley. England under Mary Tudor, the Spanish marriage, the Smithfield fires, and the papal legate sent to bring the country back. Ainsworth wrote it from the state papers and did not sp...
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William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English novelist born in Manchester, trained as a solicitor and briefly a publisher. He wrote thirty-nine historical romances and edited Bentley's Miscellany after Dickens. His works include Rookwood, Jack Sheppard, The Tower of London, and Cardinal Pole.
William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882) was an English novelist born in Manchester, trained as a solicitor and briefly a publisher. He wrote thirty-nine historical romances and edited Bentley's Miscellany after Dickens. His works include Rookwood, Jack Sheppard, The Tower of London, and Cardinal P...
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