Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture

Appendix: Physically Disabled Characters in Nineteenth-CenturyBritish Literature

Appendix Physically Disabled Characters in Nineteenth-Century British Literature This is a far from exhaustive list and includes a few works on the cusp berween the late Victorian and modern periods. Author Sir Walter Scott Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton Charles Dickens Charlotte Bronte Frederick Marryat Elizabeth Gaskell Charles Kingsley Dinah Craik Character Title BLIND CHARACTERS Bessie McClure Blind Alice Wandering Willie Nydia Stagg Bertha Plummer Rochester Edward Jackson Margaret Jennings ArnyasLeigh Muriel Halifax 1 97 Old,A1ortaJity TheBrideofLammermoor Redgaunt!,et TheLast DaysofPompeii BarnabyRudge The Cricketon theHearth Jane Eyre TheLittle Savage MaryBarton WestwardHo john Halifax, C'nmlkman Date 1816 1819 1824 1834 1841 1846 1847 1848 1848 1855 1856 198 Appendix Author Character Title Date Elizabeth Barrett Browning Romney Leigh Aurora Leigh 1857 Wilkie Collins Leonard Frankland The Dead Secret 1857 Lucilla Finch PoorMiss Finch 18r~ George Eliot Bardo R.omola 1862-63 Mary Elizabeth Braddon William Crawford The Lady :SMik 1865-66 Thomas Hardy Clym Yeobright The Return of the Native 1878 Robert Louis Stevenson Pew Treasure Island 1883 Duncan Mackiegh Kidnapped 1886¼'alter Besant Mrs. Monument The Children of Gibeon 1886 Rudyard Kipling Dick Reidar The Light That Failed 1891 Miss Florence "They" 1904 J.M. Barrie Blinder Sentimental Tonimy 1896 George du Maurier BartyJosselin The Martian 1897 Joseph Conrad Capt. Whalley The End of the Tether 1903 H.G. Wells Pedro et al. "The Country of the Blind" 1904 Arthur Conan Doyle Andreas Sir Nigel 1906 DEAF CHARACTERS Charles Dickens The Deaf Gentleman Master Humphreys Clock 1841 Baby Turveydrop BkakHouse 1851 Sophy Marigold "Doctor Marigold" 1865 Mary Elizabetl1 Braddon Peters The Trail of the Serpent 1861 Wilkie Collins Madonna Blyth Hide and Seek 1854 "The Cur" The Guilty River 1886 "CRIPPLED" CHARACTERS Jane Austen Mrs. Smith Persuasion 1818 Harriet Martineau Maria Young Deerbrook 1839 Charles Dickens Tiny Tim A Christmas Carol 1843 Mrs. Clennam LittkDorrit 1857 Silas Wegg, Our Mutual Friend 1864-65 Jenny Wren Phoebe "Mughy Junction" 1866 Elizabeth Gaskell Franky "The Three Eras 1847 of Libbie Marsh" Nest Gwynn "The Well at Pen-Morfa" 1850 Thurstan Benson Ruth 1853 Dinah Craik Olive Rothesay Olive 1850 Earl of Caimforth A Noble Life 1861 Charlotte Yonge Charles Edmonstone The Heir of Redclyffe 1853 Margaret May The Daisy Chain 1856 Ermine Williams, The Ckver Woman of Alick Keith the Family 1865 Geraldine Underwood The Pillars of the House 1873 Author Wilkie Collins Anthony Trollope George Eliot R. L. Stevenson Mary Elizabeth Braddon Mary Augusta Ward Lucas Malet Appendix 199 Character Lavinia Blyth Mrs. Milroy Rosanna Spearman Limping Lucy Sir Patrick Lundie Madeline Neroni Mary Belton Philip Wakem Long John Silver Lord Lashmar Jim Hurd Sir Richard Calmady (elder and younger) Title Hide and Seek Armadale The Moonstone Man and Wife Barchester Towers The Belton Estate The Mill on theFloss Treasure Island One Thing Needful Marcella Sir Richard Calmady PEOPLE OF SMALL AND LARGE STATURE Sir Walter Scott Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Charles Dickens Wilkie Collins Ellen Price Wood George Gissing Wilkie Collins Hall Caine Jeffrey Hudson Quilp The Marchioness circus folk Miss Mowcher Tpschoffski Pickleson Reburrus Peveril of the Peak The Old Curiosity Shop David Copperfield "Going into Society" "Doctor Marigold" Antonina PEOPLE WITH FACIAL "DISFIGUREMENTS" Rosa Dartle Mannion Isabel Vane Clara Hewett David Copperfield Basil East Lynne The Nether World MULTIPLE DISABILITIES Misenimus Dexter Naomi The Law and the Lady The Scapegoat CHRONIC ILLNESS OR UNSPECIFIED DISABILITIES Charles Dickens Smike Nicholas Nickleby Charlotte Bronte Mme. Walravens ViUette Dinah Craik Phineas Fletcher John Halifax, Gentleman Wilkie Collins Frederick Fairlie The Woman in White Matilda Wragge No Name Oscar Dubourg Poor Miss Finch Charlotte Yonge Margaret May The Trial George Meredith Emma Dunstane Diana of the Crossways R.L. Stevenson Edward Hyde The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde Date 1854 1866 1868 1870 1857 1866 1860 1883 1886 1894 1901 1849-50 1858 1865 1850 1850 18_1j2 1861 1889 1838-39 1853 18_1j6 18_1j8 1862 1872 1864 188_1j 1886 ...