The Danaides
Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1906.
Oil on canvas painting by John William Waterhouse, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1906.
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1894, about an anarchist who steals what he believes to be a tube of cholera bacteria to poison London’s water supply, but which is in reality harmless.
Short story by H. G. Wells first published in 1901, about a young man who falls asleep one midsummer’s night and wakes to find himself in Fairyland.
Oil on canvas painting by the English artist John William Waterhouse, commissioned by the Aberdeen Art Gallery and completed in 1912.
Short story by H. G. Wells, first published in 1894, a precursor to the sub-genre of thriller in which a crippled or bed-ridden hero, after observing the world through a window, is suddenly confronted by a killer.
English artist; father of John William Waterhouse
English portrait painter; mother of John William Waterhouse
Supposed plot to kill Queen Elizabeth I and reintroduce Catholicism to England.
Oil painting by John William Waterhouse
Act passed by the Rump Parliament in 1650 making fornication, adultery and incest secular offences.