New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1890-08-02
REAL PEOPLE IN FICTION.
From The London Standard

From The London standard
Everybody knows that autobiography has entered req
believe Is the that story teller relates his own
experiences In his earlier efforts bnt NOR ts m o
familiar 20 us in the English novel have han 0riga
In acua life II No doubt true thar ltts NOR
Is takel ON II by genuine art s. than those uehodo
6s,icatcv % tnished Single stndy may indeed
combine experiences of fifty people, ana IL Is 's
always possible for novelist " deny the soft IN
parchment that he has been guilty Oh p; n n
But IL has not seldom happened that denai nas pen
in vain. Everybody knows The story OF Mi ho
Moucher ana there are probably Jew pe Ihe pau
he had given TO the eccentric little person VINO tIeu
as his unconscious model for thai Great on II
g Amt | volatile favOrte utierance OF anolncr
person ALTOGETHER and that other traS "et s 'S Scna
cation to be disputed. and IS no, ie mai
by way of atonement. he should have altered ms
Original conception of the charict'r Altogether IaIou
whick underwent considerable Modification for much
the same 1t was Immediately recoeIiLned dS
sar RCatSa. Of some Of his leading traits Forster
declares that Dickens had no unhln1 lntehiloi anu
erred only from thoughlessnes But II T. nndGub,e ed
natured friends with the fact that he nag been
best 10 repair the wrong ana pointed out MANY traits in
skimpOles character with which Hunt had nothing IN
common The diary writing for instance, ne declared nc
had taken from Haydon. Although the time FOR
wholesale redress had gone by he revised me w1e
story, and softened down words here ana tnere IN INC
original possible: but he cannot be SAID 70 nave
succeeded in doing much more than marIing The sS M
mery of mastery conception. Pleasant helSh
HUNT with all his fais ana 9o Mc G 6 rertrs
was filled up Int the World Is the loser yerT IRON s6ry S
teIIer Is liable to b. CONSTANTLY checked because lie
reproduces traits that are trace;be to some one Oh MS
scter IL tins greatly increased distinguished living
novelist has putt distinguished living critic mo
NAV seem the relations between them are consider
ably strained But few people perna 4Sn "o'u O0
Nearly every stoy-tellcr must of course put some
thing OF his own environment mo Ms pop me-
if this be he a curOusly candid writer rleid-
Ing again, pnt something OF MS VIE mo All ~" Us
the accident which disigured her beauty. rs iar-
son Adams too. was drawn from ms irend 1G Tbnn
Scott drew something from almost ever! one OF ms
acquaintance. TO give minuer reality 70 re people VI
Even in autobiography few authors have been cox eH
act Dickens put mmch Of himself sell ' rDrodcd may
Of the hard experiences of his boyh9od !" tld I'ti
liable story GSpeTe3ce Ts ,6rc mdffd is dcH to
Identify Dickens at all closely with bis hero lheiE
was certainly no intention t o. diIrtr Vas acco
plished unconsciOusy. Every boy indHod iiaS SOM
thing Of CcPperef in b and Is wan ,oo great
master clumsy % confuse fact win I1.n AZ 1no
s sane G Narsie Tver" Sterne parodcd him
self yorck and charlotte hronie put m9gh cs e
DEMONSTRATIONS be said TO be reproductions .,
real people in fiction. -. ..... az ,e.s ,,r'
tupatey no man" /, IS said, knows another man
better than his own son and IL wa UPS his ta re
in Mr. Mcawber and his mother in Mrs. Nickleby
And perhaps he took Liberties Win ms Ms pare sn.ocb
which have immortalzed the character were wholly
Characteristic Of John Dickens Bmt 1t /. ca; , u'i iii
his follies sketChed with kindly hanu' -
pleasing PerhaP, /, the y rcG, on o aca George
Eliot took her father as her model for b0th Adain
Bede and Caleb Garth her SiGYn2er i A. ne % PHO he
original of Dnah Morris. can any Of tDeSe De uc'Ln
to be simple portraits As she herself oi, N.Y. anna AG't"
is my father any more Than oman Is ny G n III
Indeed there is hardly single trac portrait Nh In ~,
George Ellots stories, although trait nnneTPIs can
those Of people in real life Mr Jon Ws rr nv
Snt the author when accused of ,hc pOrtraiture. IN
DENYING il. replied that if Mr.. JoneS's deceased
he was made Of human natures finer clay Gold
smith certainly found IN Ms a'ner ,r can i hr
original Of MS Vicar Of W3seem c @G ina, We was g true
IN the portrait The kindly and simple hearted tEhe
is "a much that was in common between his environ
ment and that Of the Rev Charles GGiusniir,, o ~
PaIlas Ills stipend too. averaged forty pound,
year. But il was reserved f9 tnis ro9rodned
as legacy Of pleasure for many qencratoi' ~ nVn
For Goldsmith took him as Ms model r n0 Sn ~ tbe
"Citjzen Of the World and the Preacher OF tiie
"pesertcd village" it would be easy to ennmG rate
thorn was the character in which Lander hsnrd:
MIR Fang" in OLIVER Twist was denbeI1leb
copied from Mr Lang the notorious MAGISTRATE
Of Ha.ton Garden; Mrs CGmp' was c2 tH -
Dickens. Mr. DoTlbey" was i is said, copied IN
part nom Mr. Chapman. the chairman o1 hiGNn >
however. had v6iitabc prototype in Mrs E9ylanoe
tbe lady I'm Little COttaCest with whom nc picheds
family went 10 lodge when they left the M~naiScs
Only the name OF FaC taken from leal ,, ~
INF the NarchoneSs" photographed RON H't5
na;d Of work who used 10 wait upon the family
in prison The Garland family were Copied S0 IF@m
All ali kind n Dickens as a boy There are plenty OF
real people in fiction.