Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Pages in category "People of the Victorian era" The following 164 pages are in this category, out of 164 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
They are often popularized as individual characters rather than parts of the fictional work in which they appear. Stories involving individual detectives are well-suited to dramatic presentation, resulting in many popular theatre, television, and film characters. The first famous detective in fiction was Edgar Allan Poe's C. Auguste Dupin. [1]
Two popular characters to come out of the penny dreadfuls were Jack Harkaway, introduced in the Boys of England in 1871, and Sexton Blake, who began in the Half-penny Marvel in 1893. [26] In 1904, the Union Jack became "Sexton Blake's own paper", and he appeared in every issue thereafter, up until the paper's demise in 1933.
Pages in category "Fictional characters from the 19th century" The following 105 pages are in this category, out of 105 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Victorian era was an important time for the development of science and the Victorians had a mission to describe and classify the entire natural world. Much of this writing does not rise to the level of being regarded as literature but one book in particular, Charles Darwin 's On the Origin of Species , remains famous.
Horror-film villains become nightmare fuel for kids for decades. Some villains like Freddy, Jason, and Ghostface have multiple films to get under your skin. Others, like Annie from " Misery " or ...
The following is a list of lists of villains, supervillains, enemies, and henchmen. Lists of villains. By adversary. List of Aquaman enemies; List of Avengers enemies ...
This list is for characters in fictional works who exemplify the qualities of an antihero—a protagonist or supporting character whose characteristics include the following: imperfections that separate them from typically heroic characters (such as selfishness, cynicism, ignorance, and bigotry); [1]