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Good literary girl names?
I'm sorry if this question has been asked before, but I don't see it anywhere: Can you suggest good female names from literature? Either literary characters or authors. I am a literary junky but just can't think of any good names. I unfortunately don't like any of the Shakespearean names (Portia, Viola...) or more precisely, DH would never go for them.... TIA!
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Re: Good literary girl names?
Some of my favorite female authors are:
Nora Roberts
Suzanne Collins
Jayne Ann Phillips
What's your favorite genre?
If you like the Lord of the Rings, Arwen is pretty.
If you're into classical literature there's Anna, Jo, Anne, Alice, Beatrice, and Jane to name a few.
Right now I'm on a Stephen King kick, and he's got ones like Kyra, Susanna, Johanna, and Rose.
If you like Harry Potter, you could name her Lily after Harry's mom.
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My two favorites besides some of the Shakespeare ones are:
Josephine (Josie) and Willa
I'm obviously a Jane Austen fan, and I like a lot of names from her novels...
Jane
Elizabeth
Lydia
Catherine
Charlotte
Georgiana
Elinor
Anne
Emma
Louisa
Maria
Marianne
Caroline
Frances
Elinor
Georgiana
Louisa
Lydia
Marianne
Cassandra
Daisy
Adele
Eliza
Rosamond
I could go on all day
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Hee hee! Another Austen fan here--a lot of overlap on our lists!
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Well, that's a pretty broad swathe of names there. What kind of literature do you tend to go for? Because my tastes run the gamut from Middle-English lays to stuff today. A lot of those names would have very different feels to them. Off top my head...
Virginia (Woolf)
Beatrice (Much Ado About Nothing... it's a milder Shakespeare name and she's his best lady, IMHO! Also from The Divine Comedy)
Sabrina (John Milton's Comus)
Louisa (May Alcott)
Penelope (The Odyssey)
Author Lucy Maud Montgomery wrote the Anne of Green Gables series. Character names from the series, some of these are not until later books: Anne Shirley, Diana, Ruby, Jane, Josie, Rachel, Marilla, Muriel, Minnie May, Josephine, Philippa, Dora, Faith Meredith, Una, Mary.
Laura Elizabeth Ingalls Wilder wrote the Little House on the Prairie series. Characters from the series: Laura Elizabeth, Mary Amelia, Carrie, Caroline, Rose, Nellie, Grace, Eliza Jane, Alice, Anne, Susanna, Sarah, Hannah.
Margaret, Josephine, Elizabeth or Amy from Little Women.
Or an updated format: Megan, Johanna (still call her Jo), Bethany, Amelia or Amanda.
Real life inspirations: Anna, Louisa, Elizabeth, Abigail May
Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine, Lydia from Pride and Prejudice.
Updated: Jana, Eliza, Marie/Maria/Mariah/Moriah/Marilyn/Marian, Katherine/Kate/Katrina/Caitlin
Marianne, Elinor (Eleanor) from Sense and Sensibility.
Authors: Louisa May (Alcott), Jane (Austen), Emily, Charlotte (Bronte),
Oooh, I have a crush on the name Hero from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
Do you like Dickens?
My favorite name blogger just posted a list last month:
https://britishbabynames.typepad.com/blog/2011/06/dickensian-names.html
Girls names from that post:
Abbey
Ada
Affery
Agnes
Alice
Amy
Anne
Annie
Arabella
Arethusa
Barbara
Bella
Belle
Belinda
Bertha
Betsy "Bet"
Betty
Biddy
Camilla
Caroline "Caddy"
Cecilia "Sissy"
Charity "Cherry"
Charlotte "Charley"
Clara
Clarissa
Clemency
Cleopatra
Cornelia
Dolly
Dora
Edith
Emily
Emma
Estella
Esther
Fanny
Flora
Florence "Floy"
Georgiana
Grace
Harriet
Helena
Henrietta
Honoria
Hortense
Isabella
Jane
Janet
Jenny
Judy
Julia
Kate
Kitty
Laura
Lavinia
Lillian
Lizzie
Louisa "Loo"
Lucie
Lucretia
Madeline
Maggy
Margaret "Meg"
Marion
Martha
Mary
Matilda
May
Mercy "Merry"
Milly
Molly
Morleena
Nancy
Nelly "Nell"
Ninetta
Peg
Pleasant
Polly
Rachael
Rosa
Rose
Ruth
Sarah "Sairey"
Sarah "Sally"
Sophia
Sophie
Sophronia
Sophy
Susan
Tilly
Volumnia
We named our kitten Hero... cuz we got her after she was run over by a car and my brother saved her!
I love literary names! My favorites are:
Beatrice (Much Ado about Nothing)
Cecily (The Importance of Being Earnest)
Charlotte (Bronte)
Eleanor (from Sense and Sensibility)
Estelle (Great Expectations character)
Jane (Austen)
Juliet (Shakespeare)
Lucy (Anne of Green Gables author, character in Room with a View and Dracula)
Rosalind (As You Like It)
Virginia (Wolfe)
Willa (Cather)
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Most of mine have already been mentioned, but I will throw my LO's name out there with a literary connection:
Hadley (Hemingway) was Ernest Hemingway's first wife and the inspiration for "The Paris Wife" and she is in his memoir, "A Moveable Feast."
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My favorite female characters are:
Dagney
Anika
Remi
Dominique
Cosette
Cosette (Les Miserables)
Colette (Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette)
Gwendolen (The Importance of Being Ernest)
Guinevere
Bronwyn
Marlowe (Christopher Marlowe)
Apollonia (The Godfather)
Rowena (Ivanhoe)
Isolde/Iseult
Katherina, Bianca (The Taming of the Shrew)
Fiona (Ossian poems, probably invented by James Macpherson)
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