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The Spanish Match

Author	William Harrison Ainsworth
Language	English
Genre	Historical
Publisher	Chapman and Hall
Publication date	1865
Publication place	United Kingdom
Media type	Print

The Spanish Match is an 1865 three-volume historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth. It was originally serialised in Bentley's Miscellany under the alternative title House of the Seven Chimneys, a reference to the English Embassy in Spain. It was then published in London by Chapman and Hall. It is based on the historic Spanish match, a proposed marriage between the English and Spanish royal families in the 1620s.

Synopsis

Charles, Prince of Wales travels incognito to Madrid in the company of his father's favourite the Duke of Buckingham in order to arrange a dynastic match with the Infanta Maria Anna, the sister of Philip IV of Spain. Complications ensue when they finally reach their destination, and the proposed marriage proves very controversial back in England.

References

1. Slater p.17
2. Sutherland p.11
3. Ellis p.254
4. Carver p.434
5. Carver p.380

Bibliography

• Carver, Stephen James. The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1850-1882. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
• Ellis, Stewart Marsh. William Harrison Ainsworth and His Friends, Volume 2. Garland Publishing, 1979.
• Slater, John Herbert. Early Editions: A Bibliographical Survey of the Works of Some Popular Modern Authors. K. Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Company, 1894.
• Sutherland, John. The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction. Routledge, 2014.

v t e William Harrison Ainsworth
People	George Cruikshank Charles Dickens William Makepeace Thackeray
Novels	Rookwood (1834) Crichton (1837) Jack Sheppard (1839) Guy Fawkes (1840) The Tower of London (1840) Old St. Paul's (1841) The Miser's Daughter (1842) Windsor Castle (1842) St. James's (1844) Auriol (1844) The Lancashire Witches (1848) James the Second (1848) The Flitch of Bacon (1854) The Spendthrift (1857) The Constable of the Tower (1861) Cardinal Pole (1863) John Law (1864) The Spanish Match (1865) Old Court (1867) Myddleton Pomfret (1868) Hilary St. Ives (1870) Boscobel (1872) Preston Fight (1875)
Other	Ainsworth's novels origin dispute Portrait of William Harrison Ainsworth

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