Useable names from literature

[MyNameIsKenAdams]

Which name would you use if you could only choose a name based on a literary connection?

One boy, one girl.

Ill go first

Boy - Lawrence /Laurie from Little Women
Girl - Alice in wonderland

[KatherineSwynford]

Boy - Edmund (Narnia)
Girl - Katherine (Katherine Swynford from Katherine - if historical fiction counts) Or Lucy (Narnia)

[TheCraicDealer]

Boy - Byron, as in, "Lord". I would hope he wouldn't turn into such a prolific shagger though.
Girl - Vesper, from "Vespers" by AA Milne.

[KatherineSwynford]

Oh hang on, I think I will change that last girl to Emma (from Emma)

[RobinSparkles]

Boy - Oliver (Twist)
Girl - Charlotte ('s Web)

I have a Charlotte. She wasn't named after a spider though :o.

[Hawknotdove]

I read a book with a girl called Pella (The Art of Fielding) I love it! Not a very famous book though...!

[NotAnotherPackedLunchBox]

Boy - Everard (Everard Bone in Excellent Women by Barbara Pym)
Girl - Harriet (Harriet Vane in the Lord Peter Wimsey stories)

[Minion]

Boy: Tristan (Tristan and Iseult)
Girl: Arwen (LOTR) or Pandora (Adrian Mole)

[TawdryTatou]

Catherine (Wuthering Heights)
Jude (Jude the Obscure)

[MsJJones]

KatherineS - I was actually named after that book.

[TawdryTatou]

Hero (Much Ado)

[sausageandorangepickle]

I love the name Jennet (Woman in Black) but the deranged grieving ghost puts me off!

For a boy Tom (Jones or Sawyer)

It's hard only choosing one!

[DramaAlpaca]

KatherineSwynford Katherine is my all time favourite book

[Hawknotdove]

Can we have literary connections as well as characters? If so:
Zelda (Fitzgerald) and Orson (Welles)

[BikeRunSki]

I was named after Alice in Wonderland

[KatherineSwynford]

Oh wow, really??

I am very jealous as I think I'd actually like to be called that instead of a DD

That was the book I was reading at the time of DS' being conceived (sorry for the tmi) and he would so have been Katherine if a DD. His middle name is John though, although technically for other reasons.

[KatherineSwynford]

DramaAlpaca Mine too, haven't felt the same about a book since!

[Finabhear]

Jude (the obscure)

Thora (last rituals) and (my soul to take)

[Finabhear]

I am named after a character in a Thomas hardy book

[aoife24]

Heathcliffe. There is a photographer (in the telegraph sometimes) called Heathcliffe O'malley fabulous name.

[Wheels79]

Not literature but my son is named after James the Red Engine. Loved the name since I had the books as a child and always said that if I had a soon I'd name him James.

[MyNameIsKenAdams]

My dds name is literary so im trying to get some ideas to carry on the theme with ny next dc. Trouble is the boys name I want is from the same book as the girls.

[FlipFantasia]

Boy - Aureliano (100 years of solitude)

Girl - Lyra (his dark materials trilogy)

[Thebuttonfancier]

I'm going to go with quirky but still useable:

Boy- Atticus (To Kill a Mockingbird)

Girl- Cosette (Les Miserables)

Both names on my short lists

[Monkeyandanimal]

Petrova from 'Ballet shoes' ; nn Petra. Love it.
Edgar from 'King lear'

Can i have some more children now to use these names on?

[lackingideas]

Scarlett (gone with the wind)
Horatio (hornblower)