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Literary names (just for fun)

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stripeytopblackberet · 12/05/2015 12:54

What names do you like after a text or poem? :)

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florascotia · 02/06/2015 20:45

NB Re earlier post, it's Millicent Margaret Amanda, not Millicent Mary ...

ClaryLestrange · 02/06/2015 20:05

Eustachia (Return of the Native).

fingernailsarepretty · 02/06/2015 20:02

Loveday Brook

akorda · 02/06/2015 19:55

Cecil for a girl (The Greengage Summer)
Ramona (the children's books by Beverly Cleary)
Veronica (Sadler's Wells books)
Posy (Ballet Shoes)

Gugglebum · 17/05/2015 03:48

Watson. I love it.

itsnothingoriginal · 16/05/2015 19:57

My DS is Laurie - named after both Laurie Lee and my childhood crush Laurie from Little Women!

Lucy61 · 15/05/2015 18:59

Baboo Nob Kissin- from Sea of Poppies

GreatAuntDinah · 13/05/2015 18:46

I reeeeaaaalllly wanted Yorick. Sanity prevailed but I still think it has legs as a potential middle name.

Lipsync · 13/05/2015 15:33

Uriah (Heep). Hester (Prynne). Ebenezer (Scrooge).

(Magenta, the last time I taught Larkin, the entire seminar looked suicidal after 'Mr Bleaney'. Though having a name that's a homonym for a type of pancake might make people salivate about sour cream all the time, anyway...)

ThroughThickAndThin01 · 13/05/2015 15:32

Alizarin Belvedon

toofarfromcivilisation · 13/05/2015 15:28

Scout.

notplayers · 13/05/2015 15:26

Sorrel

WomanScorned · 13/05/2015 09:43

Oberon (I actually used it!)

Millicent Mary Amanda

AtomicDog · 13/05/2015 01:21

Shock I was just going to post Lupin from Diary of a Nobody! Weird...

Quasilulu · 13/05/2015 01:06

My OH suggested Lupin for our boy from Diary of a Nobody. He'd better be joking!

Tattiesthroughthebree · 12/05/2015 21:15

Natasha (Natasha Rostova, War and Peace)
Simone (Chalet School)

Lucy61 · 12/05/2015 21:14

Lyra

NightsOfGethsemane · 12/05/2015 21:06

Cormoran Strike

BikeRunSki · 12/05/2015 20:59

I'm called Alice after Alice in Wonderland.

Grewupinafield · 12/05/2015 20:56

Guyon
Abel
Fulke

SunnyL · 12/05/2015 20:54

I wanted Jackson Brodie if I'd had a boy.

OttiliaVonBCup · 12/05/2015 20:51

Winnie

SanityClause · 12/05/2015 20:50

Oh, and Gabriel Oak for a boy.

SanityClause · 12/05/2015 20:50

Bathsheba Everdene

Hobbes8 · 12/05/2015 20:49

Atticus. I wanted to call my second born this but didn't like any possible shortenings. Also, she's a she.