Cardinal Pole is an 1863 historical novel by the British author William Harrison Ainsworth.

[1] [2] After being serialised in Bentley's Miscellany it was published in three volumes by Chapman and Hall.

It set during the mid-sixteenth century and revolves around cardinal Reginald Pole during the reign of Mary I of England.

It functions as an effective sequel to the author's 1840 novel The Tower of London.

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