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Guy Fawkes

William Harrison Ainsworth

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CHAPTER VI. THE DISINTERMENT.

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5.00
- Bill - Nov 03, 2023

This is an excellent read and if you are interested in history & how MI6 used Guy Fawkes and another bad "old boy" from St Peter’s School York, read on!

Best see the news at TheBurlingtonFiles website for 5 November 2022 about Guy Fawkes & MI6 and then read about me, Bill Fairclough (MI6 codename JJ

3.00
- Michael - Dec 19, 2020

William Harrison Ainsworth 1805-1882 was the son of a Manchester solicitor and moved to London in 1824 to study law. As well as being a poet , magazine editor and journalist, Ainsworth belonged to a crop of Victorian novelists who were widely read during during the middle of the 19th century but fel

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- Robert - Nov 29, 2011

A novel about the gun power plot, by a victorian author who is forgotten today. He was once known as the English Sir Walter Scott because of his historical romances.

2.00
- Levent - Feb 02, 2015

This is a sort of "historical novel" written in the archaic and slow-moving style of 19th century literature. The only value of the book is possibly in the clear list of events and characters that were influential in the "Gunpowder plot", although some of it consists of conjectures on events that ar

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