![]() ![]() An autobiography must explain a novel can make a narrative out of gaps. We are licensed to identify author and protagonist - yet this is a novel. The author's name is otherwise used by teachers ("Jeanette, we think you may be having problems at school") or elders of her church, though not by her own mother. We might recall the familiarity when, a few years and chapters later, Miss Jewsbury seduces the sinful Jeanette. We hear it for the first time on the lips of Miss Jewsbury ("Don't be fanciful Jeanette"), a fellow member of her Christian sect. ![]() In Winterson's book, though her surname is never used, she shares a Christian name (for once, this culture-specific phrase is appropriate) with the author. That is to say, the character was renamed "Jess". I s Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit fiction or autobiography? TV adapters worry more than novelists about whether their fictions might seem true, and in the BBC dramatisation of Jeanette Winterson's novel its young protagonist was named "Jess". ![]()
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