KEV67 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 I wonder if it's Mrs Gaskell. I don't think she is the most miserable of the Victorian authors, but her mortality rate is similar to a World War I novel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 HG Wells? The War of the Worlds has to have a pretty high body count! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 That's a really interesting question! I wonder if anyone's done actual research on it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KEV67 Posted August 7, 2017 Author Share Posted August 7, 2017 On 05/08/2017 at 3:30 PM, Raven said: HG Wells? The War of the Worlds has to have a pretty high body count! That's a bit different. Those people weren't named characters on the whole. There was the curate and one or two scientific types at the start. Otherwise the victims were just part of an anonymous mass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian Posted September 27, 2017 Share Posted September 27, 2017 It has to be Shakespeare, right? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 1, 2017 Share Posted October 1, 2017 (edited) Thomas Hardy has to be in there somewhere. Dickens's body count is not insubstantial either! (I find it hard to think of Shakespeare as an 'author', simply because he wrote plays. I know, I know, but for me author smacks of prose and books). Edited October 1, 2017 by willoyd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 14 hours ago, willoyd said: Thomas Hardy has to be in there somewhere. Dickens's body count is not insubstantial either! (I find it hard to think of Shakespeare as an 'author', simply because he wrote plays. I know, I know, but for me author smacks of prose and books). Actually, I'd agree with that, but he was the first person I thought of when it came to body count. I'm actually quite surprised that the internet couldn't immediately answer this question for us. There appears to be lots of websites that tell me the body count in films. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willoyd Posted October 2, 2017 Share Posted October 2, 2017 8 hours ago, ian said: Actually, I'd agree with that, but he was the first person I thought of when it came to body count. I'm actually quite surprised that the internet couldn't immediately answer this question for us. There appears to be lots of websites that tell me the body count in films. You're so right - his body count stats must be pretty good (or do I mean 'bad'?!). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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