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| Author | William Harrison Ainsworth |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Historical |
| Publisher | Chapman and Hall |
Publication date | 1864 |
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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]