Who's who in fiction?
a dictionary of noted names in novels, tales, romances, poetry, and drama (1906) by Helena Swan.
The book is about fictional Characters in novels and poetry.
This the little book aims at supplying information frequently sought for in larger works of reference without success. Its scope is limited to standard works within the sphere of English Fiction, both prose and verse, whether a novel, poem, or play.
Exceptions have been made in the cases of a few books, chiefly of Oriental origin, such as The Arabian Nights', which have been rendered familiar by English translations, and of the great medieval romances of chivalry, with which we have become acquainted through Middle-English versions
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ADE — AGA
Adelaide: Killed, in error, by her own father [Jephson, Count of Narbonne].
Adeline: “Faintly smiling Adeline” [Alfred Tennyson].
Adhem, Abou Ben: A man who loved his fellow-men [Leigh Hunt, Abou Ben Adhem].
Adicia: Wife of the Soldan, who after sundry misdeeds is changed into a tigress [Spenser, Fairy Queen].
Adicia: The personification of Unrighteousness [Phineas Fletcher, Purple Island].
Aide of Aikenshaw: Neighbour of the Glendinning family [Scott, The Monastery].
Admetus: King of Thessaly and husband of Alcestis [Lowell, Shepherd of King Admetus].
Adolpha: Daughter of the Governor of Prague, married to Idesten [Knowles, The Maid of Mariendorpt].
Adonis: The name under which the poet Keats was immortalised by his friend [Shelley, Adonais].
Adonbec el Hakim: The name which Saladin assumed when he served Sir Kenneth’s squire as a doctor [Scott, Talisman].
Adosinda: The daughter of the Gothic Governor of Auria [Southey, Roderick].
Adramelech: A fallen angel, vanquished by Uriel and Raphael [Milton, Paradise Lost].
Adriana: The wife of Antipholus of Ephesus [Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors].
Adriano de Armado, Don: A pompous, poor, and boastful Spaniard [Shakespeare, Love’s Labour’s Lost].
Adriel: Represents the royal Earl of Mulgrave [Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel].
Aegeon: A merchant of Syracuse [Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors].
Aella: The hero of the tragedy [Chatterton, Aella].
Aemilia: Noble lady in love with Amilias, whom she is forced to marry through the good offices of Prince Arthur [Spenser, Fairy Queen].
Aemilia: An abbess, the wife of Aegeon, and mother of the twin Antipholus [Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors].
Aetion: A character supposed to be intended for Shakespeare [Spenser, Colin Clout’s Come Home Again].
Aga: Intended for Sir E. Godfrey, a magistrate murdered on Primrose Hill [Dryden, Absalom and Achitophel].
Agamemnon: The hero of an unsuccessful play [James Thomson, Agamemnon].
Agatha: The saintly heroine of a story of rural life in Germany [George Sand, Agatha].
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