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The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45 Volume 1

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
2 hours 48 minutes
ISBN
9781836100935
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Great Plague
  • Great Fire of London
  • 17th-century London
  • historical disaster
  • Gothic drama
  • survival
  • religious fanaticism
  • love and betrayal
  • urban catastrophe
  • human resilience

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Description

As Jacobite forces press south through Manchester, Atherton Legh is torn between loyalty and love for Constance Rawcliffe while secrets, betrayals, and a lost heir surface. Ainsworth's opening volume of idealism, divided allegiance, and rebellion's early heat. Spoken as when a town's quiet streets suddenly ask which side you are on.

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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