The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1898-04-24
living ORIGINALS o.
AUTHORS Characters.


- thAm around ~: we recognise them IN
our felattvea Our scquaint&sces. and. II
bot he1nded By vanity. frequently In cur
eeavea Who has not numbered among his
friends some individual who is the living
Wa1Etu9 image 81 character made I'm
Ooetz1 By the pen Of q Dsckens o.
1backsrayf And rest assured. my dear
~ % madam. that while you are recog-
Aiding In some ons else a character thar
oGrees in every detail with ons that the
Ueg3d bAs learned TO laugh st or to love IN
1hD works Of the great writers, some ore
o1O u discovering thu es.us thing about
40a. Tie world II fuli OF the characters.
eccentric. serious and great. that literary
o1n3us has thrown = halo around. II IL
oo1v - Ascx5be . reason for this Most
- The ehnrAcooU OF the books Of Thack-
cray. 01ekeus. Tennyson. SOFT and the
~ - great authors were drawn from lay
Aouroo selected by the writer's from
s.s.s :,. e: people With whom they were
The most recent Instance Of this II
"Dhe9lock Hoknes" The Scotch professor
Upon whom Conan Doyle founded TIE
graf 6stsSt1ve Aae been recognised. and
- 6een written up again ana again. until
ae , - wep known a. thu detective.
The original Of tbs character OF 1ucAW-
Der. whs etsrnalIy looked Tor somtshing TO
eurn up was Charles Dicken6 own father.
- q wen known. while the weak and eaAi-
h victilnixcd Mrs. Eicklsby IVES the
nother Of the noveiia4- Boythorn In BLEAK
NOUS" caused . quarrel between Dickens
and walter Savage Lander. for the latter
feooGnie4d In the character his eWn %
ouliartties. and resented the fact that he
had been - treated. Leigh Hunt w.
onGry vita DickenS because The famous
character Of Harold 6kimpole. IN the eefns
hook. reDenbie1 hts manIAfiagno - c'oosly
that there was no poaEnaiity Of The HE
aeas not baknx recQgnissd.
Tho sS1Gin0 Ok ThAc4eray'A Bulwig. In
Fellow Plush Papers. was no other than
Drlwer. and thefe was trsmsqaous row
ever the naming Of . murderer In one OF
his books Catherine Hayes. which was the
9ems Of . famous songstreaA AnArsw
kfchdshns was the original ct Thacke-
.sys rSssr Arcndsans nsv:r fsrs.vs
qS 49, 1870, "a 81 's csrn ..s s.e &.
1pye yprfnan. .snA yount Or19tFsat. In
% 'svirsinlan&" was Edmund Tata 70
r Dot CustieAn. In The Roundabout
taoerA" VIZ cornpcAts dGure. built On
os psculsasstics o{ several living psspas.
Naahf11a lawtherns Wa kept eusy:
III oA&sA" assuring . large and ever
0ne1aYinG ermy of Pynchsons that his
OBaVoF e fhAt name had not been drawn
- Ma - easily were Charlotte
| I11te'o aAafaoeAes In 's0hirley'' recog-
~ - MAY originals that the latter
0llo6 eaoh SS1sr by their Fictitious names.
0yrsM Nfees q his e=n pscu,iarities OF
ID eAA temperament In his verSe. Alfred
3oDot "a the same thing. Nine. dc
taej 0opdo1a herself In ''corinns' and
pon2no," on1 Tt>ackesay's portrais can
~ - soo&IDise6 In Pendennh. DR..
ellAat = Durrceed 70 b the original Of
- S{1nl1 y NJ novel Of "Bitter Sweet"
~.
D3Noo oAaA1oe vas the original Of her he
D&Ae % sIhe Quick and tho Dead"
0AaEaso 11oAo admitted that no was his
1Ngo lAy figure In drawing the character
D0&oj Charlotte Bronto was Jane
no. ana 0NoeEs Eliot Wa . composite
RI 2eQn1A 49, Tallyer and possibly
DslGnAA 0a1ssdth was his own orig
al = tue 0o9A Natursd Man." while
UAlIns ~ ne original Of Tom Jones.
0aAeo W1.ep bic enemies In he'll. and MI
a>A1l AnG61e painted them In. DRYDEN
90 uolo1 Or hio satireD on living per-
OnA Gboe ontually erased tho name of
~ oe Aio characters and pue Colly Glib
6ers In ~ place Byron heavily scored
Ms cF4ticA ana Buiwsr did IKE ONCE
" Tennyeen Suiwer was rAther accom-
plahed IN this respect He 0tirised the
Athenasun magazine In paul CLIFFORD"
Even 0oerGs ~. Of England was oepicted
- the kseess ee . low den In the same
novel.
Tennyuoa rspaid Buiwsr IN his onslaughts
both IN "A Character and In ''The New
Tmon ana the PoetA" Capt. Marrys,
Who wrote such humorous naval stores.
notably Peter Simple" once sent . chai-
lonGs to Prof. Morris because the latter
used his name for . character in '.Eustsce
Conway" Browning scored Wordsworth
% Tho Lost Leader" He also at various
timss In hts career oarieatured CARDINAL
Vpsaoman. Napoleon III. ana John Home.
che apirituAiist The latter figured ~
oludge the Medium. Even our own Whit
CIR made Daniel Webster ngurs In ere Of
ME competitions
Nine de etael drew TalieyrNnd's charse-
teristics 70 polntedly that the portrait was
recognised by tire French statesman. who
resented II in one Of his famous rsoss.
when Alfred de Musset and George sand
returned Rom their eecapade into italy
thNy proceeded 10 sore each other IN
novels they soon after printed. Mrs. Core,
Mrs. Tro,icre ans LADY Morgan used the
personal element repeatedly. while 70
come upon the real Intention OF pisraeiPs
novels requires key. bringing In the
names Of many prominent people Ia Eng
land.
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