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lay figures selected by the writer's
from among the people with whom
they were acquainted.
The most recent instance of this Is
sherlock Holmes" The Scotch pro-
fessor upon whom Conan Doyle found
ed the great detective has been re-
cosnized, and has been written up
again and again, until he is as we'll
known as the detective.
The original of the character Of
Micawber, who eternaHy looked for
something to turn up, was Charles
Dickens own father, as is well-knoWn.
while the weak and easily victimized
Mrs. Nickleby was the mother of the
novelist. Boythorn, in Bleak House,
caused a quarrel between Dickens and
Walter Savage Lander, for the latter
recognized in the character his own
peculiarities, and resented the fact
| that he had been so treated. Leigh
Hunt was angry with Dickens because
the fomous character of Harold Skim
| pole in the same book resembled his
| mannerisms SO closely that there was
no possibility of the likeness not being
| recognized.
The original Of Thackeray's Bulwig
| in Yellow-PluSh Papers was no other
than Bulwer, and there was tremen-
! dous row over the naming of a murder
ess in one Of his books, Catherine
Hayes, which was the name of a fam
GUS songstress. Andrew Archdehne
was the original of Thackeray's Foker.
Archdehne never forgave Thackeray
the liberty taken with him. The cele-
brated DR.. Cornish was TIhackeray's
Portman, and young Grubstreet, in the
"Virginians," was Edmund Yates to
dot Costigan, in THE Roundabout
Papers, was a composite figure built
| OH the Deculiarities of several living
people, as Thackeray himself acknowl-
edged.
Nathaniel Haw; horne was kept busy,
after the publication of 1.-THE House of
Seven Cables" assuring large and
ever multiplying army of Pyncheons
that his character of that name had
| not been drawn from life. So easily
were Charlotte Bronte's characters in
Shirley recognized by their originals
| that the latter called each other by
their fictitious names
Byron wrote of his own peculiarIties
| OF life and temperament in his verse,
Alfred de Musset did the same thing,
Nine. de Stael depicted herself in CO.
rhine" and "Delphine,' and Thacke-
| rays portrait can easily be recognized
In Pendennis. Dr. Holland Is supposed
to be the original of the villain in his
novel Of Bitter Sweet and many
people believed that Amalie Rives
Chanler was the original of her heroine
in THE Quick or the Dead;" Charles
Keade admitted that he was his own
| lay figure in drawing the character Of
Rolfe; Charlotte Bronte was Jane Eyre,
ard George Eliot was composite Of
Romola, Maggie Tulliver and possibly
Dorothea; Goldsmith was his own origl-
| nal in "The Good-Natured Man." while
Fielding was the original Of Tom Jones.
Dante wrote his enemies in hell and
| Michael Angelo painted them In Dry
| den was noted for his satires on living
| persons Pope actually erased the name
Of one Of his characters and put Colly
| Cibber's in Its place. Byron heavily
| scored his critics and Bulwer did like
| office for Tennyson. Bulwer was rather
| accomplished in this respect. He satir-
| lied the Athenaeum magazine in "Paul
| Clifford" Even George w., Of Eng
land, was depicted as the keeper Of
low den in the same novel.
! Uphoistering.
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