Rookwood
Rookwood

Rookwood

RookwoodDuring a visit to Chesterfield, in the autumn of the year 1831, I first conceived the notion...
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Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison,1805-1882
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Language: English
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Rookwood

Rookwood

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Rookwood

Rookwood

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Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison,1805-1882
Format: eBook
Language: English
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Rookwood

During a visit to Chesterfield, in the autumn of the year 1831, I first conceived the notion of writing this story. Wishing to describe, somewhat minutely, the trim gardens, the picturesque domains, the rook-haunted groves, the gloomy chambers, and gloomier galleries, of an ancient Hall with which I was acquainted, I resolved to attempt a story in the bygone style of Mrs. Radcliffe,which had always inexpressible charms for me,substituting an old English squire, an old English manorial residence, and an old English highwayman, for the Italian marchese, the castle, and the brigand of the great mistress of Romance. While revolving this subject, I happened, one evening, to enter the spacious cemetery attached to the church with the queer, twisted steeple, which, like the uplifted tail of the renowned Dragon of Wantley, to whom "houses and churches were as capons and turkeys," seems to menace the good town of Chesterfield with destruction. Here an incident occurred, on the opening of a vault, which it is needless to relate, but which supplied me with a hint for the commencement of my romance, as well as for the ballad entitled "The Coffin." Upon this hint I immediately acted; and the earlier chapters of the book, together with the description of the ancestral mansion of the Rookwoods, were completed before I quitted Chesterfield. Another and much larger portion of the work was written during a residence at Rottingdean, in Sussex, in the latter[xviii] part of 1833, and owes its inspiration to many delightful walks over the South Downs. Romance-writing was pleasant occupation then. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 23564
Author: Ainsworth, William Harrison
Release Date: Nov 20, 2007
Format: eBook
Language: English

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