Who are the three Kingston boys featured in " Seven Up ! " ?
It is where the comic Victorian novel " Three Men in a Boat " by Jerome K. Jerome begins ; cannons aimed against the Martians in H. G. Wells ' " The War of the Worlds " are positioned on Kingston Hill ; in " The Rainbow " by D. H. Lawrence the youngest Brangwen dreams of a job in Kingston upon Thames in a long , lyrical passage ; Mr. Knightly in " Emma " by Jane Austen regularly visits Kingston , although the narrative never follows him there .