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Girls name, after someone who is admired or did something special/memorable IYSWIM

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 17:08

Planning 2nd child. First DD has a family name.

If we have another girl I would like her to be named after someone who did something special or someone who who is admired for her achievements.

Any ideas?

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MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 21:16

Rosa Luxembourg also an unbelievably brave and principled woman who dared criticise Lenin and his terrorist methods, and paid the price with her life.
Rosa Parks, well, of course.

MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 21:14

Rosa is also great. I had a similar idea but didn't follow it through. It makes a wonderful story to tell a daughter, that you named her after someone strong and brave who fought for right.
The old film Carve Her Name with Pride starring Virginia McKenna tells her story really well.

MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 21:13

This the cipher that was given to her by her British control, and it makes me cry!

The life that I have is all that I have
And the life that I have is yours
The love that I have of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have, a rest I shall have
And death will be but a pause
For the years I shall have in the long green grass
Are yours and yours and yours.

She was only 23 when she was shot

pointydog · 10/06/2008 21:12

Hatshepsut

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 20:58

I agree artichokes, it was a name I was considering but maybe not now I've found out a bit more.

MsDemeanor - Is there a book you can recommened about Violette.

I also like the idea of Rosa as its two different women.

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artichokes · 10/06/2008 20:35

I wanted a girl's name associated with womens' sufferage. The obvious choices are emmeline, christabel and sylvia. Of those I was most drawn to christabel. However, if you feel the same do some research on her. Unlike her mother and sister she did support universal suffrage - just votes for rich women. Also she was more right wing than her family and advocated things such as the disbanding of trades union. Later in life she became a very evangelical christian.

For me the associations of the name christabel are less positive than emmeline and sylvia. Although the name is more attractive.

MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 20:17

Violette was a mother too. Her little daughter collected her George Cross (sob, sob, sob)

Takver · 10/06/2008 20:15

I would go Rosa too - Luxembourg, Parks, how can you go wrong . . .

LyraSilvertongue · 10/06/2008 20:09

I love the name Emmeline (Pankhurst).

Umlellala · 10/06/2008 20:06

Our dd is Aphra after Aphra Behn - 17th Century spy, England's first professional woman writer and the writer of what is often considered the first anti-slavery novel.

here

Nighbynight · 10/06/2008 19:58

Amrita (Sher-Gil, Painter, died tragically young)

3andnomore · 10/06/2008 19:39

have a look here

Madlentileater · 10/06/2008 19:33

Rosa again

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 19:31

Keep going Klaw!

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Klaw · 10/06/2008 19:29

Current women of inspiration in the childbirth field. (sorry to be so predictable)

Mary (Cronk MBE)

May (Ina May Gaskin)

Sarah (Buckley)
Gloria (Lemay)
I could suggest a few others if you want...

:-)

DarthVader · 10/06/2008 19:28

Margaret
Florence
Marie

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mollysawally · 10/06/2008 19:26

MsDemeanor - Just read about Violette Szabo, compleelty agree MsDeaamnor. Extraordinarily brave. Thats one I will be suggesting to dp.

Can someone give me the surnames of these names which were suggested so I can look them up

Eva, Louisa May, amelia, ella,indira,Doris
Nancy,Sylvia

Thank you all

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turquoise · 10/06/2008 19:08

Xpost again - was reading thread.

MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 19:06

Yes, wow! Huge heroines of mine. Unimaginable physical and moral courage. And beautiful too!

turquoise · 10/06/2008 19:05

Odette

TotalChaos · 10/06/2008 19:04

Erin (Pizzey)

TotalChaos · 10/06/2008 19:03

at that cross post!

TotalChaos · 10/06/2008 19:03

Violette (Szabo)
Odette (Hallowes)

MsDemeanor · 10/06/2008 19:03

Violette Szabo and Odette Hallowes - amazingly brave women SOE operatives in WWII. Just amazing.
Elizabeth Fry, prison Reformer
Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst, feminist pioneers. Was very smitten with Christabel but sounds silly with surname.

TotalChaos · 10/06/2008 19:02

Jessica (Mitford)
Marie (Curie)
Rosa (Parks)
Josephine (Butler)

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