The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #53788 Message #830109
Posted By: Mr Red
19-Nov-02 - 03:09 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair (Foster)
Subject: RE: Lyr Add: JEANIE WITH THE LIGHT BROWN HAIR
Anoraks alert.
I posted information on this in another SCF thread - probably Hard Times.
Anyway the gist of it is that Jeannie was reckoned to be modelled on his wife Jane (??) who was the daughter of the local doctor. That doctor administered to Charles Dickens when SCF was 16 and arranged a meeting between SCF & CD. The commonality of the title Hard Times (book and song) are related by this meeting.
Anorak off.