Favorite Jilly Cooper names?

[EmilyRoo]

I've just started Riders (having never picked up a Jilly Cooper novel before) and am fascinated by how Rupert is such a lout. Then there are loads of characters and dogs....

So, any names from any of her novels you'd use on an actual child? (or maybe you already have )

Ooh my DD2 is Tabitha - it was DH suggestion! Will ask him if it came from Jilly!

My eldest daughter is Tabitha, but from Bewitched. (Shows how old I am!) My granddaughter is Nettie, not from the beloved Jilly Cooper pen but from another book which I am raving about called Prospero's Island which is as close to a new JC as I have been able to find - like her early ones with all the girl's names? I'm a bit obsessive about it as it was such an amazing find - a friend recommended it on Kindle. Have four cats, though, and they are all called Jilly Cooper names, how sad ... lol.

Tabitha
Lysander

And though it's not a name but a title, I am rather fond of Appassionata as a middle name perhaps!

Ace
Lysander
Octavia.

JC's grandchildren have got great names, including Lysander.

Octavia - do you know that when the original book was published, the heroine's name was October Brennan, not Octavia Brennan. There's a bit in the story where she sobs that her mother was so neglectful that she couldn't even be bothered to think of a name for her new baby and just called her after the month she was born in. When all the girls's names' books were reissued as a series, the name was changed to fit in with the rest, ie Harriet and Bella etc.

Verity I remember that!

Imogen.