The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1895-02-18
Dickens biographer, Forster, has figured


Nathaniel Hawthorne had no end OF
trouble to convince a constantly increas-
ing race of Pyncheons that the Judge oil
that name i'll 1.-The House of Seven Ga
bles" was not drawn from living person
Charlotte Bronte drew living pictures in
Shirley" to such an extent that people
recognized and called each other by their
new or ''novel' names. George Lewis was
assumed to be the original of George
Elliot's Mr. Casaubon IN "Middlemarch.' y
Dante wrote his enemies in He'll and
Michael Angelo painted them in. Dryden
was noted for his satires on living persons
Pope actually erased the name of one of his
characters and put Colley Cibber's in its
place. Byron heavily scored his critics
and Bulwer did a like office for Tennyson.
Bulwer was rather accomplished in this
respect. He satirized the Athenaum mag
azine in paul Clifford Even George "
OF England was depicted as the keeper of a
low den in the same novel.
Tennyson repaid Bulwer his onslaughts
both IN "A Character" and in The New
1Imon and the Poets" Captain Marryat,
notably Peter Simple" once sent chal-
ienge to Professor Maurice because the
latter used his name for character in
"Eustace Conway" Browning scored
Wordsworth in The Lost Leader" He
also, at various times in his career, carica-
tured Cardinal Wiseman, Napoleon III
and John Home, the spirtualist. The lat
ter figured as Sludge, the Medium. Even
our own Whittier made Daniel Webster
figure in one of his compositions.
Nine. de Stael drew Talleyrand's char
acteristics SO pointedly that the portrait
was recognized by the French statesman,
who resented it in one of his famous mots.
When Alfred de Musset and George Sand
returned from their escapade into italy
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novels they soon after printed. Mrs. Gore,
Mrs. Trollope and Lady Morgan used the
personal element repeatedly, while to come
upon the real intention of Disraeli's novels
requires a key bringing in the names OF
| many prominent people in England.
The authors who can be recognized in
their own work are legion. Goldsmith
Man." Fielding was the original of Tom
Jones, Captain Farquhar was Sir Harry
Wildair, Jean Jacques Rousseau depicted
himself in 'Heloise," Goethe was Werther,
Hawthorne can be seen in Miles Clover
dale, while Byron was Childe Harold be-
yond shadow of doubt
What was called the gloomy grand"
OF literature had great vogue in Byron S
time, and he had many imitators of his
method OF depicting himself Alfred de
Musset has done something of the same
thing, Nine. de Stael depicted herself in
.Corinne'" and "Delphine,' and per-
fectly recognizable portrait of Thackeray
is found in "Pendennis. DR.. Holland
was imagined to be the original of the
villain in his novel ''Bitter Sweet" and it
was strongly insisted upon for while that
Amelie Rives Chanler drew herself in the
historical heroine of "The Quick or the
Deao." Charles Reade drew Role from
his own character and acknowledged it.
Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre, and
Maggie Tulliver and possibly Dorothea
OF all authors Sir Writer Scott was
the most honest. He tells US in his pre-
faces just where he obtained his char
acters, even going so far as to mention
the names of the originals. The very
latest phase OF this element in fiction,
barring 'Trilby," is sherlock Holmes"
How Conan Doyle founded the famous de-
tective on Scotch professor has been told
again and again, but it adds further evil
dence to that already submitted that most
great characters of fiction are taken from
real, living characters.