Inference of personality projected onto fictional characters having an author's first name.
Jane Austen projected some of her personality characteristics onto her fictional namesakes Jane Bennet in the novel Pride and Prejudice and Jane Fairfax in the novel Emma. Wishful fantasy seems satisfied by two attributes of both Janes. They are very beautiful, and they marry rich men they love. A feeling of inferiority was expressed by two attributes of both Janes, depicted as deficient in social communication and subordinate to the heroine of the novel.
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Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, School of Pharmacy, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
D001319:Authorship; D005201:Fantasy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010551:Personality; D011385:Projection; D014956:Writing