Literary names?

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Literary names?
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Mon, 05-12-2008 - 1:43am
Any suggestions for girl names with literary basis?
anonymous
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Mon, 05-12-2008 - 2:21am

Fun.

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Mon, 05-12-2008 - 2:23pm
You could try Googling Shakespearian names - many of Shakespeare's female characters have really lovely names.
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Mon, 05-12-2008 - 3:01pm

here are some i like from Shakespearean plays:


Bianca
Cordelia
Diana
Imogen
Miranda
Nerissa
Rosalind


here's a link with a list of names from british literature: http://www.parenting.com/Pregnancy/BabyNames/babynameList.jsp?displayMode=11&catID=186&gender=FEMALE&genID=2&typeID=810&noteHeading=

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Mon, 05-12-2008 - 3:47pm

>>Tess (of the Durbervilles)<<


I just have to say to the OP, please please don't use Tess -- especially if you're meaning to use it for 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.' One of the saddest, most depressing, least inspiring female characters in literary history. :)


I'll add:

Nora - from

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Sun, 06-08-2008 - 9:51pm
I love Aishling(ash-lynn) Grey from Katie MacAlister's Aishling Grey series. For a boy, I'm in love with Declan from Midnight Bayou by Nora Roberts.
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Registered: 06-08-2008
Sun, 06-08-2008 - 11:22pm
Jane Austen: Darcy, Bennet, any of the heroines names Elizabeth, Jane, Emma, Eleanor, Marian, Willoby ect.
Shakespeare: google this there are millions. my favorites Miranda, Beatrice, Ariel, Portia
Louisa May Alcott: Meg, Jo, Beth, Amy, Laurence or I think Alcott is a cute/unusual name for a boy
Chaucer: Alisoun (variant spelling of popular name) appears in several of the Canterberry Tales
F. Scott Fitzgerald: Amory, Jay, Daisy, Gloria, Berniece, or Zelda (Fitzgerald's wife)
Hemingway: Jake, Brett, Maria,
Homer: Penelope, Helen, Seymour
J.D. Salinger: Holden, Franny, Zooey
Oscar Wilde: Cecily, Ernest, Algernon, Dorian, Salome
Anyn Rand: Roarke, Dominique
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Mon, 06-09-2008 - 5:17am

Ronja!


She is a main character in the children's book Ronja the Robbers daughter written by Astrid Lindgren.


She is a

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Mon, 06-09-2008 - 2:38pm

<< Jane Austen: Darcy, Bennet, any of the heroines names Elizabeth, Jane, Emma, Eleanor, Marian, Willoby ect. >>


In Sense & Sensibility, they're Elinor, Marianne, and Willoughby. ;-)


Though I would never name my child after Willoughby. Brandon or Edward, sure, but never Willoughby.