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Guy Fawkes first appeared as a serial in Bentleys Miscellany between January and November 1840 The first of William Harrison Ainsworths seven Lancashire novels the story is based on the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 an unsuccessful attempt to blow up the Houses of Parliament Ainsworth relied heavily on historical documents describing the trial and execution of the conspirators of whom Fawkes was one but he also embellished the known facts He invented th...Seguir leyendo