Fiction    From 1897 

The War of the Worlds

Categories: Literature

Countries: USA

Novel by H. G. Wells about the invasion of Earth by Mars. One of the first novels in the science-fiction genre. It has been filmed, produced as a musical album by Jeff Wayne, and famously caused near panic in America when Orson Welles adapted it as a radio play.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

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The War of the Worlds

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The Woking Martian

Around the sculpture are several pavement slabs representing the bacteria, wh...

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Woking Martian Cylinder

The web address no longer has Wells' material on it, but the Guardian reporte...

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Thomas Park F.S.A.

Thomas Park F.S.A.

"The poetical antiquary", bibliographer and engraver. He published his own verse but mainly he edited historical and literary works. Father of John James Park.

Person, History, Literature, Museums / Libraries

1 memorial
Joseph Smith

Joseph Smith

Translated Pepys's diary (written in one of the versions of shorthand used at the time) in 1819 - 22.

Person, Literature

1 memorial
Beatrix Potter

Beatrix Potter

Artist, writer and sheep breeder. Born Helen Beatrix Potter at 2 Bolton Gardens, South Kensington where she lived in the third floor nursery until she was in her thirties. She used her second name ...

Person, Art, Children, Animals, Literature, Seriously Famous

1 memorial
T. E. Lawrence

T. E. Lawrence

Intelligence officer and author. Born at Woodlands, Tremadoc, Caernarvonshire. He joined the archaeological team of Sir Flinders Petrie at Carchemish on the Euphrates, where he first met the Bedoui...

Person, Armed Forces, Literature, Seriously Famous, Middle East, Wales

1 memorial
Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Lucinda Dickens Hawksley

Great-great-great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens.

Person, Friend / family, History, Literature

1 memorial