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To avoid scandal, Charlotte raised Merle as Constance's half-sister. [ 1 ] [ 9 ] Charlotte had herself given birth to Constance at the age of 14 as the result of rape by Henry Alfred Selby, the Anglo-Irish foreman of a tea plantation. [ 10 ]
Mar 8, 2023 · Oberon was, in fact, the child of her then 12-year-old half-sister, Constance. Oberon seemed to have some sense of the pitfalls of her blurry identity from a young age, growing up in poverty...
Merle Oberon was born Estelle Merle O’Brien Thompson in 1911 in Bombay, British India—what we know today as Mumbai, India. Oberon's father, Arthur Thompson, was a British mechanical engineer who worked for Indian Railways.
Feb 5, 2023 · The reality was that she was actually born in Bombay (now Mumbai) in 1911 and her father, Arthur Thompson, was a railway engineer who had a sexual relationship with her then 12-year-old mother, Constance Selby, who was the daughter of Thompson’s wife Charlotte.
However, Merle was raised by Charlotte as her younger daughter and as younger sister of Constance. Merle’s birth certificate lists Arthur Thompson as her father with the first name misspelt as ‘Arther’.
Feb 21, 2017 · So Estelle Thompson from Bombay became Merle Oberon, a white upper class Hobart girl who moves to India from Tasmania after her distinguished father dies in a hunting accident. Oberon was...
Catherine (portrayed by Merle Oberon) and Heathcliff as portrayed in the 1939 film. Cathy Earnshaw is the younger sister of Hindley Earnshaw. Cathy and Hindley are born and raised at Wuthering Heights.
