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Guy Fawkes Volume 2: An Historical Romance

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
5 hours 8 minutes
ISBN
9781836102489
Published
12 March 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Gunpowder Plot
  • Historical fiction
  • Gothic romance
  • Treason
  • Catholicism
  • Conspiracy
  • Jacobean England
  • King James I
  • Religious persecution
  • Betrayal

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Description

Ainsworth's 1841 novel dramatizes the Gunpowder Plot. Blending fact with Gothic romance, it follows Guy Fawkes and Viviana Radcliffe. As Catholic persecution intensifies under James I, Catesby recruits Fawkes to blow up Parliament. Amidst treason, Viviana struggles between love and loyalty. The narrative builds tension toward November 5th, exploring faith, betrayal, and doom. Placed in Jacobean London, it turns tragedy into a thrilling tale of conspiracy.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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