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The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45 Volume 2

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Language
English
Length
130 pages
ISBN
9781836102458
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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Prince Charles Edward enters Manchester as Atherton Legh faces Rawcliffe Hall secrets, a lost heir, and the hard choice between Constance and the cause. Ainsworth's second volume of rebellion heating into revelation and retreat. Loyalty and love pull harder as Jacobite fever peaks.

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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