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The Manchester Rebels of the Fatal '45 Volume 3

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Language
English
Length
158 pages
ISBN
9781836102465
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

The Manchester regiment's retreat ends at Carlisle, where Atherton is taken and the rebels face trial and the fatal day. Ainsworth's closing volume of capture, doomed courage, and the cost paid years later. Romance and history meet in the shadow of the scaffold.

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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