I haven't read any, but he was a contemporary of Dickens and Bulwer-Lytton, and wrote in the romantic adventure style of Sir Walter Scott, so "romance" here is meant in the original sense. I suspect they might be a bit OTT in style.
http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/ainsworth/bio.html[/quote]
Is he the Harrison Ainsworth who wrote a novel about the Pendle Witches? If so, I think Annis is probably right about the style
