The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1899-12-14
REALITY IN FICTION.
LIVING ORIGINALS OF AUTHORS
CHARACTERS.
Some of Them HIVE resented the
Liberties Wel1-known Characters
in Fiction Who Are Portrayed by
Observation-Disclosures score Enemies.

The characters in tile writing Of most
eminent noVelists are living realities.
We see them around us We recognize
them In our relatives. our aequaint-
ances, and. II not blinded by vanity,
Frequently in ourselves. Who has moi
numbered among his friends some indi-
vidual who Is the living walking image
,Of character made immortal 10y the
pen of "A Dickens or IL Thackerayf And
resi- assured that while you are recog
nizing in some one else y character that
agrees in every detail with one that
the world has learned 10 laugh al or 10
love in the works of the great writer's.
some one else is discovering the same
thing about you. The world is full Of
the characters, eccentric, serious and
great, that literary genius has thrown
II halo around. II is easy 10 aseribe
reason for this. Most OF the characters
in the books of Thaekeray, Dickens.
Tennyson Scott and the list of great
authors were drawn from lay figures
selected by the writer's from among
the people with whom they were ne
quainted.
The most recent instance of this Is
sherlock Holmes" The Scotch pro-
fesSor upon whom Conan Doyle found
ed the great detective has been recog-
nized, and has been written up again
and again. until he Is rs well known
as the detective.
The original of the character of
Mlcawber, who eternally looked for
something to turn up. WIS Charles
Dickens own father, rs is well known,
while the weak and easily yietimized
Mrs. Nickleby was the mother of the
novelist Boythorn, In BLEAK House"
caused 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
famous character of Harold Skmpole.
in the same book. rescmbed his man
nerisms so closely that there was no
possibility of the likeness not being
recognized. The original of Thacll-
eray's Bulwig. in yellow Plush Pa
pers," was no other than Bulwer, AMI
there was IL tremendous row oyer the
naming of murderess in one of his
books, Catherine Hayes. which was
tile name of famous songstress. An
drew Archdehne was the original Of
Thackeray's Foker. Archdehne never
forgaye Thackeray the liberty taken
with him. The celebrated DR. Cornish
was Thackeray's Portman. aud young
Grubstreet. in the "Nirginlans." WIS
Edmund Yates 10 a dot. Costigan. in
The Roundabout Papers" was com
posite figure built on the peculiarities
IF several living people, as Thaekeray
himself acknowledged
Nathaniel Hawthorne was kept busy.
after the publication Of THE House
If Seven Gables" assuring large and
every 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
their1ietitlous names
byron wrote Oh MS OWN pecullafliles
Of life and temperament in his verse.
Alfred de Musset did the same thing.
Nine. de Stael depicted herself In
"Corinne" and "Delphine," and Thack-
eray's portrait can easily be recognized
in "Pendennis." DR.. Holland Is sup
posed TO be the original of the villain
In his novel of Bitter Sweet" and
many people believed that Amelie
Rives Chandler 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 char
acter of Rolfe. Charlotte Bronte WAS
Jane Eyre. and George Eliot was n
composite of Romola Maggie Tulli-
yer, and possibly Dorothea Goldsmith
was his own original In "rhe Good
Natured Man" while Fielding was the
original of Tom Jones
Tennyson repaid Bulwer in his on