Characters from literature

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Across
  1. 2. - ____ on-Thames (6)
  2. 4. - Lady/Aristocracy meets handbag horror (4,9)
  3. 6. - Soap opera lead (5)
  4. 7. - Demigod (4)
  5. 9. - troubled child/adult (3,8)
  6. 12. - goes well with poached eggs (8)
Down
  1. 1. - Bunbury’s inventor (9)
  2. 3. - Obsessed with phonetics, not feelings (9)
  3. 5. - father misogynist
  4. 8. - Dies laughing, literally (8)
  5. 10. - identity crisis (4)
  6. 11. - Killed by a relative (6)