Greenbrier independent. [volume] (Lewisburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1859-1980, 1895-05-09
MIsgEELtaNEsUs.
Real People Who Have Figured i'm
Fiction.


The hue and cry which Mr.. James
Mcneil Whistler has lately raised
against Mr.. Du Maurier for intro
ducing him i'm "Trilby" suggest the
numbers of people with whom other
novelists have taken similar liber-
ties. Dryden was noted for his sat
Tres on living people, and in striking
Off telling sketch of an enemy, he
is yet to be surpassed. Shattsbury,
Nilliers and Monmouth are graphic
ally and unmistakably portrayed un-
der thin DISCUSSES; while Shadwell,
the poets ancient enemy, is made
the hero of Mactleckn0e. From
the las-named satire, Pope borrowed
the idea of his " Dunciad,n wherein
he caustically lashcd his asSailants,
whom he politely denominatcd
ounces" He supposes that Shad-
we'll is dead, and places, as his sue
cessOr on the throne of dullness,
Theobald Tor Tibbald.) In the lat
ter edition of l7l3, Theobald is de.
posed, and that Colley Cibber, the
actor and at that time pOet-laureate,
with whom Pope had quarreled, is
given his place.
Thackeray was very decidedly
given to serving up his friends as
well as his enemies in his books. In
the Yellow Plush Papers," he
ridiculed Bulwer, under the name of
Bulwig. Andrew Archdehne rec
ognized himself in Foker, and never
forgave the hit. In "The Virgin
ians," Edmund Yates was intro
duced as young Grubstreet; Port
man was the weil-knOwn DR.. Cor
nish.
Dickens was irresistibly inclined
in the same direction. Walter Saw
age Landor and Leigh Hunt are
supposed to have adorned the stories
of the great novelist, while neither
his father nor his mother was OK
empt from playing their parts in his
realistic creations. Byron had no
regard for personalities, when debts
could be settled in that way
Bulwer dealt Tennyson a heavy
blow, an obligation which the latter
acknowledged and returned iii "a
Character" and in "The New TimOn
and the Poets" Nor was Browning
too erudite for such dealing; Words
worth is supposed to have stood foI
"The Lost Leader" and Cardinal
Wisenan and Napoleon III, were
touched off by his virile pen. John
Home, the spiritualist, appears in
his pages as Sludge, the Medium
So lifp-like were the portraits drawn
by Charlotte BrOnte in Shirley''
that people recognized themselves
and each other, and called each Other
by their new names.
So well did Madame de Staei out
line TaIleyrand's character that the
sketch was resented by the fam0u:
statesman i'm one of his trenchan,
mOtS.
Nathaniel Hawthorne was accused
of copying his "Judge Pyncheon'
from a living parsonage. winter
was supposed to have had Dame
Webster before his minds eye wher
he poured ont his righteous wratf
upon Ichab0d." In order to ge
at the true intent Of DisraelpS nov
els a kew is required furnishing th'
names of the various men ana wo
men taken from real life and htte(
into the WOof of his fiction. Ih'
came has been said of Mrs. Hum
nbrey Wards " Marcella," and o
the much .talked-Of screen Carna
tion.u Everyone has heard ina
Conan Doyle found the Original o
sherlock Holmes in Scotch pro
fessor: and that that Thomas Iiar
dy,s characters are not all the Great
ures of his imagination. Many au
thors have portrayed themselves
Goldsmith in 1.-THE Good-Nature,
Mani Fielding in "Tom Jones,
Rvron in Childe Harold" Goethe IL
m Werther." Readers nave dls
oorned Charles Reade in lt0lfe'
and hawthorne in "Miles Clover
daIeU Madame de Stael douptieS
dascribed her own experiences to
Loo extent i'm "Corinne," AM
, Cherlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre
Thackoray is supposed to have VIII,
ten of himself in PendenniS )
lean Jacques Rousseau to nave uI ,i
,o,n5 'e himself i'm Heloise," whil
, e' ,ha GREAT Shakespeare, in the mlnd
of many, is portrayed ID MS o"
ooncantion of " Henry ""