Ally Sloper
Cartoon character created by Charles Ross, the first continuing comic-strip hero.
Fictional character
Fictional character
Fictional character, Historical novel
The Flashman Papers
Series of novels and short stories by George MacDonald Fraser, about a cowardly British soldier who had been the school bully in the 1857 novel Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
Fictional character
Sweeney Todd
Fictional character who first appeared as the villain of the Victorian penny dreadful serial The String of Pearls (1846–1847).
Comic, Fictional character
Roy of the Rovers
British comic strip about the life and times of a fictional footballer named Roy Race, who played for Melchester Rovers.
Cat, Fictional character
Cheshire cat
Fictional character that appears in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865).
Fictional character
Galehaut
Perhaps the most overlooked of King Arthur’s Knights of the Round Table, who makes his appearance in the series of anonymous 13th-century French romances known as the Lancelot-Grail, or the Vulgate Cycle, in which he is portrayed as a rival to Queen Guinevere for the love of Sir Lancelot.
