Literary Botticelli

[chickenfeet]

I'm home with a nasty cold and need entertainment so what better than a game of Literary Botticelli. The rules are here.

My name begins with D

I am fictional, male, married, not human but could reasonably be considered English and was created before 1800.

It would be a stretch to describe the work I appear in as a novel.

I am not Humpty Dumpty or related to eggs in any way.

In most ways I appear to be human. In one important one I do not.

I do not have a tail.

I am not Dylan or Delnabo.

Clues added

My home also starts with D

I appear in a work that was once immensely popular but probably isn't much read anymore

We have a winner

valkyriekaren correctly deduced that I am the giant Despair from Pilgrim's Progress.

Comments

[erotetica.livejournal.com]

Was your father imprisoned in a debtor's gaol?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

He was not but I don't know to whom you are referring so ask your question.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Are you a Russian who wrote a novel about a man who murders a moneylender?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not Dostoyevsky

[erotetica.livejournal.com]

Are you married to a Moorish soldier who thinks you may be unfaithful?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not Desdemona

[melted-snowball.livejournal.com]

Are you a Greek godess?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not Diana

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Are you the son of Sir Hugo Mallinger and a rabbi's daughter?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm not and I have no idea who was

[coughingbear]

Are you tempted to elope with the son of your father's steward?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not but I don't know who was

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Did you sit for a portrait which mystically granted you eternal youth, allowing you to stay unchanged through decades of debauchery and corruption?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not Dorian Gray

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Are you the romantic but taciturn protagonist of Pride and Prejudice?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not the elder brother of coughingbear's last attempt

[coughingbear]

Are you a long-suffering officer whose actions are usually attributed to someone else but does eventually get to marry the woman he loves?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not William Dobbin

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Were you the mysterious and eponymous main character in an unfinished novel?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not and I do not know who is so ask your question

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

Are you an orphan?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

hold on! ADM has the right to ask a question.

[intertext.livejournal.com]

Were you ever tried for treason?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I was not. Of whom were you thinking?

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Did you bite your cruel and abusive stepfather, thereby prompting him to ship you off to a boarding school?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Would I be wrong in thinking it is your character's given name that begins with 'D"?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Are you sure you are thinking pre 1800 (or even 1900) And may I call you Darling, Darling?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Are you a murdered king?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not Duncan

[zenicurean.livejournal.com]

Are you a witty knight whose friend got in trouble because of an accident with dangerous magical chemicals?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I'm not and I know not whereof you speak so ask away.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Are you commonly thought to have suffered fractionation at the foot of a wall?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Was Humpty Dumpty married?

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

Did you once turn into a sea creature?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I did not and I can't think who did

So, ask a follow up

[mamculuna.livejournal.com]

If we get to ask second general questions, I'd like to know if your creator was English?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

You have to ask a specific question first

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Are you a wifebeater?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am not and can't think who you mean. Ask a supplementary.

[shezan.livejournal.com]

Was your creator a female?

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I think that's too broad (pun intended) a question for an initial question though quite legitimate as a follow up. Try again.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Are you a character in The Pilgrim's Progress?

And the winner is

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

I am the giant Despair