Sir John Chiverton (novel)

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'''''Sir John Chiverton''''' is an 1826 [[historical novel]] by the British writer [[William Harrison Ainsworth]].Williams p.61 Maxwell p.98 His [[debut novel]] it was published anonymously by the [[London]] publisher [[John Ebers]] whose daughter Anne he would marry the same year. Ainsworth later acknowledged authorship of it. He was twenty years old when he wrote it, drawing inspiration from [[Hulme Hall, Hulme|Hulme Hall]] which he had grown up near, although his schoolfriend John Partington Aston claimed to have co-written the book and is sometimes credited as co-author. It is a [[Gothic literature|Gothic]] tale set during the [[Elizabethan era]] and strongly resembles the [[Waverley novels|Waverley series of novels]] by [[Walter Scott]], a leading figure of the [[Romanticism|Romantic movement]] who was then at the height of his success. Scott was aware of the book and noted it in his diary as one of the more notable "imitators" of his work.Carver p.39 He followed it with another Gothic novel ''[[Rookwood (novel)|Rookwood]]'' in 1834

'''''Sir John Chiverton''''' is an 1826 [[historical novel]] by the British writer [[William Harrison Ainsworth]].Williams p.61Maxwell p.98 His [[debut novel]] it was published anonymously by the [[London]] publisher [[John Ebers]] whose daughter Anne he would marry the same year. Ainsworth later acknowledged authorship of it. He was twenty years old when he wrote it, drawing inspiration from [[Hulme Hall, Hulme|Hulme Hall]] which he had grown up near, although his schoolfriend John Partington Aston claimed to have co-written the book and is sometimes credited as co-author. It is a [[Gothic literature|Gothic]] tale set during the [[Elizabethan era]] and strongly resembles the [[Waverley novels|Waverley series of novels]] by [[Walter Scott]], a leading figure of the [[Romanticism|Romantic movement]] who was then at the height of his success. Scott was aware of the book and noted it in his diary as one of the more notable "imitators" of his work.Carver p.39 He followed it with another Gothic novel ''[[Rookwood (novel)|Rookwood]]'' in 1834

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