In Fiction
- Captain George Mainwaring, commander of the Home Guard platoon in the BBC sitcom Dad's Army
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- Elizabeth Mainwaring, Captain George Mainwaring's wife
- Barry Mainwaring, Captain George Mainwaring's long-lost brother
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Famous quotes containing the word fiction:
“... any fiction ... is bound to be transposed autobiography.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)
“The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective.”
—Raymond Chandler (1888–1959)