Fiction    From 1932  To 1976

Miss Marple

Categories: Fictional

Miss Marple

Miss Jane Marple, village spinster detective, created by Agatha Christie. Played by many actors, including: Gracie Fields, Margaret Rutherford, Angela Lansbury and Joan Hickson.

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Miss Marple

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Agatha Christie book

Unveiled on the 60th anniversary of The Mousetrap, this bronze, 2.5 m high 'b...

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Barnaby Rudge

Barnaby Rudge

One of Charles Dickens characters, from Barnaby Rudge (1841).

Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
Mother Goose

Mother Goose

The interment register at St Olaves Hart Street records Mother Goose being buried on 14 September 1586. This is extremely strange so we did some digging.  The story of a goose laying golden eggs ca...

Fiction, Animals, Fictional

1 memorial
Tunnel Trench - play

Tunnel Trench - play

A war play by Hubert Griffith, set in WW1. Shown as a ITV Play of the Week in 1963. This play opened The Duchess Theartre in 1929.

Fiction, Fictional, Theatre

1 memorial
Kaled

Kaled

Also known as "Lara's page", from Byron's poem: Lara. Precis of the poem: Lara is a lord with a page Kaled who, it turns out, is a woman in disguise. On Lara's death Kaled dies from grief. This po...

Fiction, Fictional

1 memorial
She Stoops to Conquer

She Stoops to Conquer

Comic play. Probably the best known work of Oliver Goldsmith. Originally entitled 'Mistakes of a Night'. The daughter of a wealthy countryman poses as a servant in order to win over her nervous sui...

Fiction, Fictional, Theatre

1 memorial