Characters Lodged in My Mind

Certain characters from often-read and well-loved novels are so vivid and fully-formed, as if they are people I know personally, that they seem to have taken up long-term residence in my mind, and I often find myself thinking of them. Below is a list of some such characters.

-Elizabeth Bennet, Emma Woodhouse, Anne Elliot, Fanny Price, and Elinor and Marianne Dashwood (all from Austen’s novels)
-Jane Eyre (from Jane Eyre)
-Dorothea Brooke Casaubon (from Middlemarch)
-Becky Sharp (from Vanity Fair)
-Miss Matty Jenkyns (from Cranford)
-Tess Durbeyfield/D’Urberville (from Tess of the D'Urbervilles)
-Anna Karenina (from Anna Karenina)
-Emma Bovary (from Madame Bovary)
-Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy March (from Little Women)
-Lily Bart (from House of Mirth)
-Countess Ellen Olenska (from The Age of Innocence)
-Isabel Archer (from The Portrait of a Lady)
-Antonia Shimerda (from My Antonia)
-Clarissa Dalloway (from Mrs. Dalloway)
-Dr. Aziz (from A Passage to India)
-Margaret Schlegel Wilcox (from Howard’s End)
-Lucy Honeychurch (from A Room With a View)
-Edna Pontellier (from The Awakening)
-Kurtz (from The Heart of Darkness)
-Anne Shirley (from Anne of Green Gables)
-Jake Barnes (from The Sun Also Rises)
-Benjy Compton (from The Sound and the Fury)
-Rose of Sharon Joad Rivers (from The Grapes of Wrath)
-Emmeline “Lucia” Lucas (from the Mapp and Lucia novels)
-Holden Caulfield (from The Catcher in the Rye)
-Dean Moriarty (from On the Road)
-Moses Herzog (from Herzog)
-Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom (from Rabbit, Run)
-Celie (from The Color Purple)
-Mira (from The Women’s Room)
-Sula (from Sula)