Windsor Castle (Esprios Classics)

Windsor Castle is a novel by William Harrison Ainsworth serially published in 1842. It is a historical romance with gothic elements that depicts Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn. Intertwined with the story are the actions of Herne the Hunter a legendary ghost that haunts Windsor woods. Ainsworth wrote Windsor Castle while he was publishing The Miser's Daughter. During this time he was constantly working to publish the novel by April and Ainsworth only stopped when his mother Ann Ainsworth died on 15 March 1842.