Rookwood Volume 1

Name: Rookwood Volume 1
Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
ISBN: 9781836102359

Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Language: English
Length: 182 pages
ISBN: 9781836102359
Published: 10 March 2026
Imprint: Fractal Press

Gothic romance
inheritance dispute
family secrets
cursed legacy
highwayman
Dick Turpin
betrayal
prophecy
historical fiction
revenge

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Description

Rookwood is a Gothic romance set in 1737 England, centered on a deadly dispute over the Rookwood family inheritance. After the manor’s owner dies, hidden heirs, dark prophecies, and long-buried secrets emerge. Rival claimants, forbidden love, and acts of betrayal draw in the infamous highwayman Dick Turpin. William Harrison Ainsworth blends history, superstition, and suspense in a tale of ambition, revenge, and a cursed family legacy.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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Other editions

Volume 1 · Audiobook · English · Fractal Press9781836100843
Volume 2 · Ebook · English · Fractal Press9781836102366
Volume 2 · Audiobook · English · Fractal Press9781836100850
Volume 3 · Ebook · English · Fractal Press9781836102373
Volume 3 · Audiobook · English · Fractal Press9781836100867