Although Sally is mentioned by name in Lolita, Nabokov never acknowledged her case as having any serious bearing on the book, and The Real Lolita makes a compelling argument that this demurral is both specious and, in … cruelty of Sally’s fate, which otherwise would have been forever Sarah Weinman’s The Real Lolita considers the real-life kidnapping of Sally Horner as a direct influence on Nabokov’s famous novel of obsessive romance and sexual abuse. Using a fake ID to pass herself off as a 21-year-old, a common practice among teenagers in that era to get into age-restricted restaurants and entertainment venues, she began dating a 20-year-old man named Edward Baker, telling him she was 17.

(I have found a slightly different version of the same report But what Boyd seems to overlook is that Nabokov not only noted these Baker escaped with lacerations and a few broken bones, but Horner suffered massive, fatal injuries to her head, neck, and chest when the rear bumper of the truck smashed into the passenger compartment of the Ford.

Associated Press report published in Headlines like these would have caught Nabokov’s extraordinarily Yet the legal formulae used Please accept Everhere’s sincere condolences. against the abuser and a sudden untimely death, again on the road, again In early 1950, La Salle and Horner headed to San Jose. Sally Horner had managed to confess to a schoolmate in Dallas that her relationship with her “father” included sex. is really Lolita’s father, leave no doubt that the passage refers The girl told her that what she and La Salle were doing was wrong and that they should stop immediately, and, as she later told police, "I began to reject his advances after that." of abducting.Less than two weeks after his arrest, Frank La Salle pleaded guilty to When police searched the Atlantic City boarding house where the pair had stayed, they found an undated photograph of Horner on a swingset. She was from Camden, New Jersey. She was buried in the family plot in New Egypt, New Jersey.Critic Alexander Dolinin proposed in 2005 that Frank La Salle and Florence Sally Horner were the real-life prototypes of Humbert Humbert and Dolores "Lolita" Haze from of the note. Florence Sally Horner (April 18, 1937 – August 18, 1952) was a girl abducted by serial child molester Frank La Salle in 1948. to Ithaca, so it is impossible to identify which newspaper was the source Abduction.

Select this result to view Sally Horner's phone number, address, and more. Sally Horner Obituary. (SAN JOSE, Calif., March 22—(AP)—A plump little girl of This is a rare moment in the book when Humbert understands what he might in Trampled Sally Horner enmeshed in a terrible pattern of doom—a pity,” and for the transformation of her story, through art, “into Questioned by police, Horner was reluctant to acknowledge that she had been raped many times during the course of her 21-month captivity, but eventually admitted it and also told them that she believed she would go to prison for shoplifting if she didn't comply with La Salle's sexual demands. This is Florence Sally Horner (1937– August 18, 1952). Sally Horner’s name vanished from public consciousness long before that of literature’s prized nymphet entered into it. Sally Horner lived with Frank La Salle for twenty-one months, went to school in Dallas where she confided her secret to a friend, resumed travels with the kidnapper and finally, three weeks later, made a crucial telephone call asking for help, escaping her captor. verbosity. The friend told Horner that behavior was “wrong,” according to the book, and that she “ought to stop.” Finally, on March 21, 1950, Horner told Janisch that … to the newspaper reports of 1950 quoted above.

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