Meyer cites many novels as inspiration for the "Twilight" series, including "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë and L. M. Montgomery's "Anne of Green Gables" and its sequels. Each book in the series was also inspired specifically by a different literary classic: "Twilight" by Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice"; "New Moon" by William Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet"; "Eclipse" by Emily Brontë's "Wuthering Heights"; and "Breaking Dawn" theme by Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Although Meyer claims to have based "Twilight" on "Pride and Prejudice", film studies scholar Anne Morey claims that the novel bears resemblance to "Jane Eyre". The choice to name Edward came from the works of Charlotte Brontë and Jane Austen and her novels are influenced by both medieval courtly love and 19th-century etiquette. Although Meyer has claimed that she did not read vampire literature and thus could not be influenced by it, scholars Anne Klaus and Stefanie Krüger argue that Meyer's characters bear similarities to "traditional vampire figures" and that Edward resembles both gothic villains and Byronic heroes. Meyer has indicated that despite the supernatural and vampire themes in her novels, she was influenced far more by Austen and Shakespeare than by Anne Rice or Stephen King. Meyer has described Austen, Shakespeare, and Orson Scott Card as her favorite authors.