User:Ottava Rima/Ainsworth's Magazine

430-431 - In a letter to Crossley 17 November 1841: "I am just now finishing Old St. Paul's and am consequently very busy... I have made all arrangements to start my Magazine at Christmas next, and have engaged Tony Johannot (the artist), who is now at work for me. I went over to Paris for that purpose... Windsor Castle, of course, forms the main feature of the design, and I propose commencing the story with Henry the Eighth entering into the Castle on the morning of St. George's Day, 1529, attended by Anne Boleyn and the Cardinals Wosley and Campeggio. I intend making Lord Surrey the hero of the story. what say you?"

431 - Ainsworth joined up with Cruikshank who was to serve as the illustrator to the work. Johannot was used to illustrate Windsor Castle. Once Cruikshank joined with Ainsworth, Cruikshank moved his efforts from his own magazine, The Omnibus, to the Ainsworth's Magazine. An advertisement for the magazine appeared in December 1841 which stated that the first volume of the Ainsworth's Magazine would be published on 29 January 1842.

432 - The opening of the magazine was welcomed by contemporary members of the press, which only increased as the magazine proved to be successful. The magazine marked the height of his career. Before in 1839-1841, his works Jack Sheppard, Guy Fawkes, The Tower of London, and Old St. Paul's made Ainsworth very success and put him at the level of Charles Dickens.