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John Law (novel)

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John Law
AuthorWilliam Harrison Ainsworth
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical
PublisherChapman and Hall
Publication date
1864
Publication placeUnited Kingdom
Media typePrint

John Law: The Projector is an 1864 historical novel by the British writer William Harrison Ainsworth.[1] It was released in three volumes by the London publishing house Chapman and Hall.[2][3] It focuses on the early eighteenth century Scottish financier John Law and his efforts to establish the Mississippi Company in Paris which ultimately went bankrupt after a speculative bubble.[4]

In 1871 Ainsworth wrote a serialised novel The South Sea Bubble focusing on the near-contemporary collapse of the British South Sea Bubble.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Michie p.55
  2. ^ Carver p.428
  3. ^ Sutherland p.156
  4. ^ Carver p.378-79
  5. ^ Carver p.385

Bibliography

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  • Carver, Stephen James. The Life and Works of the Lancashire Novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, 1850–1882. Edwin Mellen Press, 2003.
  • Michie, Ranald C. Guilty Money: The City of London in Victorian and Edwardian Culture, 1815–1914. Routledge, 2015.
  • Sutherland, J.A. Victorian Novelists and Publishers. A&C Black, 2014.