Tournament: Round 1

And "The Period Drama Hero Tournament" has begun! Here are the polls. There are twenty-five polls all together (50 heroes).

Poll 1

John Chivery (Little Dorrit)

Robert Crawley, Lord Grantham (Downton Abbey)

Poll 2

Percy Blakeney (The Scarlet Pimpernel)

Roger Hamley (Wives and Daughters)

Poll 3

Silas Marner (Silas Marner)

Hugh Stanbury (He Knew He Was Right)

Poll 4

Sydney (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Dr. Frank Harrison (Cranford)

Poll 5

Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights)

Gabriel Cochrane (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Poll 6

Charles Carson (Downton Abbey)

Paul Montague (The Way We Live Now)

Poll 7

Sir Timothy Midwinter (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Robert Martin (Emma)

Poll 8

Robert Timmins (Lark Rise to Candleford)

John Bates (Downton Abbey)

Poll 9

Colonel Brandon (Sense and Sensibility)

Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist)

Poll 10

Fitzwilliam Darcy (Pride and Prejudice)

Alf Arless (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Poll 11

Jack Worthing (Importance of Being Earnest)

John Thornton (North and South)

Poll 12

Louis Trevelyan (He Knew He Was Right)

Edward Ferrars (Sense and Sensibility)

Poll 13

James Dowland (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Nicholas Nickleby (Nicholas Nickleby)

Poll 14

Sydney Carton (Tale of Two Cities)

Henry Tilney (Northanger Abbey)

Poll 15

Sherlock Holmes (Various Stories)

Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Little Women)

Poll 16

Professor Friedrich "Fritz" Bhaer (Little Women)

Westley (Princess Bride)

Poll 17

James Percy (The Inheritance)

Adam Bede (Adam Bede)

Poll 18

Arthur Clennam (Little Dorrit)

Daniel Deronda (Daniel Deronda)

Poll 19

Captain Frederick Wentworth (Persuasion)

Charles Bingley (Pride and Prejudice)

Poll 20

Thomas Holbrook (Cranford)

Will Landislaw (Middlemarch)

Poll 21

St. John Rivers (Jane Eyre)

Thomas Brown (Lark Rise to Candleford)

Poll 22

George Knightley (Emma)

Osborne Hamley (Wives and Daughters)

Poll 23

Philip "Pip" Pirrip (Great Expectations)

Matthew Crawley (Downton Abbey)

Poll 24

Edward Rochester (Jane Eyre)

Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables)

Poll 25

Septimas Harding (Barchester Chronicles)

Thomas Gibson (He Knew He Was Right)

Go and vote now!

What do you think of the polls? Are there any thing are really easy? Really hard? Who do you think is going to win? Who are your rooting for? Leave a comment!