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Strong female names- literary links!

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Scarydinosaurs · 19/08/2016 06:52

I have an Ivy Rose Alice, and an Orla Ann. I need a third name!

I can't have Clover as it was vetoed (by DH and on here!) as was Heidi (surname doesn't work with it).

I would like a name with a literary connection- any suggestions please? I'm totally stuck!

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WuTangFlan · 21/08/2016 19:06

Ada, daughter of Byron (there's your literary connection). Also she was amazing.

Overthinker2016 · 21/08/2016 19:02

Zelda (as in Fitzgerald)
Hadley (Hemmingway's first wife)
Harper (as in Lee)
Vivi (YaYa Sisterhood)

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EasternDailyStress · 21/08/2016 08:02

Bathsheba
Tess
Alice
Charlotte
Jane
Isabel
Henrietta

Sleeperandthespindle · 21/08/2016 07:53

Julia

SerenDippitee · 21/08/2016 07:38

Dorothea

user1471734618 · 21/08/2016 02:27

oh you don't know yet?
What boy names have you thought of?

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Scarydinosaurs · 21/08/2016 01:57

Some brilliant ideas! Thank you!

Of all of them, I like Edith, Cordelia and Beatrice- but all of them are being vetoed Angry.

Thanks for your help, I think I'm searching for the impossible and will have to just pray this bump is boy a boy and negate the need for another girl name.

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user1471734618 · 21/08/2016 00:40

how about Mabel ....

pieceofpurplesky · 20/08/2016 23:40

Bronte
Jane
Tess

CorporeSarnie · 20/08/2016 23:40

Or Iris. Beautiful name, strong woman writer.

CorporeSarnie · 20/08/2016 23:38

Martha (Gellhorn). A truly brave, strong woman who lived and wrote in a thoroughly male-dominated world.

hownottofuckup · 20/08/2016 23:38

Eloise
Marianne
Elizabeth
Tess
Bonnie
Dido

PointlessUsername · 20/08/2016 23:38

Reagan (king Lears Daughter)

Blu · 20/08/2016 23:38

Vita
Nancy

CotswoldStrife · 20/08/2016 23:36

Georgiana (Mr Darcy's sister)

TheRealAdaLovelace · 20/08/2016 23:34

you say that Heidi doesn't work - does it alliterate?
In other words no more H names?

BikeRunSki · 20/08/2016 23:31

Virginia

BikeRunSki · 20/08/2016 23:31

Rebecca
Daphne

BlueChampagne · 20/08/2016 23:28

Aphra
Marianne/Marion
second Miranda

PotatoBread · 19/08/2016 18:04

And another Edith vote here

DerelictMyBalls · 19/08/2016 16:18

Another vote for Edith!

pizzaeatingmonkey · 19/08/2016 10:16

Tess

plimsolls · 19/08/2016 08:41

Iris

GillBear · 19/08/2016 08:40

Cassandra
There's also a load http://nameberry.com/list/236/Literary-Names-for-Girls?all=1 here]