[what's up]

Nell may not have been taken seriously by Oscar Wilde but that's not the same thing as her having been boring to readers throughout the years.

All do not find her or my other example (Elinor) boring as you do. You yourself may not be "disturbed" (using your definition) by wholesome well-adjusted characters but they have satisfied countless others in various forms of art.

[Borges]

Dickens scholars don’t pay any attention to her. That novel is nowhere near the most read Dickens novel in 2013.