His use of real people, including William Harrison Ainsworth, also lent credence to the story.

* Harrison Ainsworth ( 1805 – 1882 ), author

* William Harrison Ainsworth

He is also known for a fictional overnight ride from London to York on his horse Black Bess, a story that was made famous by the Victorian novelist William Harrison Ainsworth almost 100 years after Turpin's death.

It was, however, the story of a fabled ride from London to York that provided the impetus for 19th-century author William Harrison Ainsworth to include and embellish the exploit in his 1834 novel Rookwood.

William Harrison Ainsworth ( 4 February 1805 – 3 January 1882 ) was an English historical novelist born in Manchester.

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Ainsworth was born on 4 February 1805 to Thomas Ainsworth, a prominent Manchester lawyer, and Ann ( Harrison ) Ainsworth, the daughter of the Unitarian minister at Manchester Cross Street Chapel, the Rev.

When not playing, Ainsworth was tutored by his uncle, William Harrison.

In 1911, S. M. Ellis commented: " It is certainly remarkable that, during the twenty-eight years which have elapsed since the death of William Harrison Ainsworth, no full record has been published of the exceptionally eventful career of one of the most picturesque personalities of the nineteenth century.

The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1805 – 1882.

* Ellis, S. M. William Harrison Ainsworth and His Friends.

William Harrison Ainsworth.

* Works by William Harrison Ainsworth at Project Gutenberg Australia

* William Harrison Ainsworth at Project Gutenberg

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The hall was the setting for William Harrison Ainsworth's 1842 novel Guy Fawkes, written around the plausible although unsubstantiated local story that the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 was planned in the house.

* Anna Symmes Harrison ( 1842 – 1926 )

Van Zandt was the representative of Harrison County in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas from 1840 until 1842, when Sam Houston appointed him Republic of Texas Chargé d ' Affaires in Washington, DC.

He became disenchanted when the party snubbed Clay in favor of William Henry Harrison in 1840 and by 1842, Brownlow had turned outright hostile toward Harrison's successor, John Tyler.

* Mary Symmes Harrison ( 28 January 1809-16 November 1842 )

By November 1842, Harrison became sole owner .....

On 5 April 1859, Smith married his sixteen-year-old cousin Levira Annette Clark Smith ( 29 April 1842 Nauvoo, Illinois – 18 December 1888 St. Louis, Missouri ), daughter of Samuel Harrison Smith.

As President pro tempore of the Senate, he became Acting Vice President from April 4, 1841 to May 31, 1842 after the death of William Henry Harrison and his Vice President John Tyler becoming President.

Ingalls was born on September 6, 1842 in Harrison, ME where he worked on the family farm until he began teaching at the age of 16.

Kosiński wrote his novel Pin Ball ( 1982 ) for his friend George Harrison, having conceived of the idea for the book at least ten years before writing it.

After I, Claudius, he and the ex-patriate German film producer Erich Pommer founded the production company Mayflower Pictures in the UK, which produced three films starring Laughton: Vessel of Wrath ( US Title The Beachcomber ) ( 1938 ), based on a story by W. Somerset Maugham, in which his wife Elsa Lanchester co-starred ; St. Martin's Lane ( US Title Sidewalks of London ), about London street entertainers, which featured Vivien Leigh and Rex Harrison ; and Jamaica Inn, with Maureen O ' Hara and Robert Newton, about Cornish smugglers, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, and the last film Alfred Hitchcock directed in Britain before moving to Hollywood in the late 1930s.

Two of the Pendle witches, tried at Lancaster in 1612, in an illustration from William Harrison Ainsworth's 1849 novel, The Lancashire Witches ( novel ) | The Lancashire Witches.

* The historical novel Macbeth: An Historical Novel of the Last Celtic King ( 2011 ) by Robert Harrison, opens with the victory of Malcolm II of Scotland over his predecessor Kenneth III.

* The Alphas, a young-adult novel by Lisi Harrison

The Quiet Earth is a 1981 science fiction novel ( ISBN 0-340-26507-8 ) by New Zealand writer Craig Harrison.

The 1942 Casablanca centers on the development of conscience in the cynical American Rick Blaine ( Humphrey Bogart ) in the face of oppression by the Nazis and the example of the resistance leader Victor Laszlo. The David Lean and Robert Bolt screenplay for Doctor Zhivago ( an adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel ) focuses strongly on the conscience of a doctor-poet in the midst of the Russian Revolution ( in the end " the walls of his heart were like paper "). The 1982 Ridley Scott film Blade Runner focuses on the struggles of conscience between and within a bounty hunter ( Rick Deckard ( Harrison Ford )) and a renegade replicant android ( Roy Batty ( Rutger Hauer )) in a future society which refuses to accept that forms of artificial intelligence can have aspects of being such as conscience.

A similar dystopian society to that of " Harrison Bergeron " appears in Vonnegut's 1959 novel The Sirens of Titan.

Harrison used the story, with minor modifications, as the introduction to the series ' first full-length novel, also called The Stainless Steel Rat.

It is less likely, however far more romantic, that, as claimed by some sources, Rookwood was named after William Harrison Ainsworth's novel Rookwood, written in 1834.

* King appears in Harrison Ainsworth's romantic novel Rookwood, published in 1834.

* Stars and Stripes Forever, a 1998 science fiction novel by Harry Harrison, the first book in the Stars and Stripes trilogy

* One King's Way, a novel by Harry Harrison & John Holm in 1995

The story inspired William Harrison Ainsworth to include a modified version in his novel Rookwood, in which he attributed the feat to Dick Turpin.

He returned to the public consciousness around 1840, when William Harrison Ainsworth wrote a novel entitled Jack Sheppard, with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

Frank Herbert's Dune is a three-part miniseries written and directed by John Harrison and based on Frank Herbert's 1965 novel Dune.

In 1896 Cyril Maude and Frederick Harrison became lessees, opening with Under the Red Robe, an adaptation of Stanley Wyman's novel.

In Harrison Ainsworth's novel Mervyn Clitheroe ( Ch.

Director John Harrison has said that he felt the need to expand Irulan's role because she plays such an important part in later books, and her epigraphs make her a significant presence in the novel.

After publishing Warlock ( 1981 ) and Sundog ( 1984 ), Harrison published what is perhaps his most famous novel, Dalva ( 1988 ).

Harrison ’ s 2008 novel The English Major is a road novel about a 60-year-old former high school English teacher and farmer from Michigan who, after a divorce and the sale of his farm, heads westward on a mind-clearing road trip.