Thanks for pointing that out -- I might have been fixating on dead fictional male characters, otherwise. So...
Was this character created for a book?
Yes to created for a book.
Was the book written before 1900?
Uh Oh. This is getting complicated.
The novel was published before 1900, but technically the material was in another form prior to the novel's publication.
Hmm.. let's try another tack.
Was the author of the novel/other material American?
Yes to Simon Legree. (A review of the first film of Uncle Tom's Cabin states that he died. ) It was written as a serial and appeared in the anti-slavery journal, the National Era, a year before it was published in book form.
The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature (which was given to me as a graduation prize by my high school's PTA, and which I resorted to, in order to look up American fictional characters with the initials "SL") also says he dies in the novel, but I've never read it, so you could tell me anything about what happens to him, and I'd believe you.
Back shortly with new initials.
Guy Lombardo
Gypsy Rose Lee
Gertrude Lawrence
Bree: I read a synopsis of last chapter of Uncle Tom's Cabin on the Internet and it said he lived and continued to deal in slavery. And now, I can't find it.
That was fast -- Gertrude Lawrence is right!
By the way, The Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature entry on Simon Legree says, "He himself dies an appropriate death in the novel, but he suffered a strange resurrection in Thomas Dixon's "The Leopard's Spots" (1902). Dixon "reconstructs" him ... as a Republican leader under the carpet-bag regime." Maybe that's what the synopsis you saw was referring to.
No, that's not what I read. I'll look for it tomorrow.
I'm leaving shortly, but I'll ask one and if somebody wishes to play in my absence, they may toss mine out.
E B
Hi Kev.
I'm confused. Trying to figure out George Orwell and Cookie.
E B
I think Kev is alluding to the fact that George Orwell's real name was Eric Blair. He'll have to explain the "cookie" part himself (maybe it's his pet name for you).
Emily Bronte
Ethel Barrymore
Oh! The George Orwell bit went right over my head. But, I like "Cookie".
Not:
Eric Blair
Emily Bronte
Ethel Barrymore
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Not:
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
