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By the end of the 19th century the reported sightings of Spring-heeled Jack were moving towards the north west of England. Around 1888, in Everton, north Liverpool, he allegedly appeared on the rooftop of Saint Francis Xavier's Church in Salisbury Street. In 1904 there were reports of appearances in nearby William Henry Street. [26]
It has been described as reflecting "the tradition of stealthy tremolos that marked the entrance of villains in 19th century stage melodrama". [8] By 1917 the idea of villain's motifs in general, or variants of the specific motif, was established well enough for an author to warn against the "monotonous and wearisome" overuse of the motif ...
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Daniel Rice (1823–1901) – American clown of the 19th century and principal inspiration for Uncle Sam. David Shiner – Tony Award-winning American born mime and circus clown who has appeared on Broadway and with several European circuses; Demetrius Nock – "Bello Nock," star clown in Ringling Brothers Barnum and Bailey Circus
Pages in category "Characters in novels of the 19th century" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
A masterful police detective or private investigator who is modelled on the fictional 19th-century detective Sherlock Holmes. These characters may emulate his perceptiveness, intelligence, and use of deductive reasoning. Dr John Thorndyke in the early 20th-century detective novels of R. Austin Freeman, contemporaneous with Holmes
It was only by the 16th century that Russian folktales began getting recorded, and only by the 19th century with Bogdan Bronitsyn's "Russian Folk Tales" (1838) that a compilation of genuine Russian folktales was published. [3] Study of folklore gained particular popularity in the late 20th century (around the 1960s). [3]