Literary names (just for fun)

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

Cassandra Mortmain.

DH is really keen on Bleaney. I told him to put down the Whitsun Weddings sharpish!

Just love Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.

Was always disappointed by how plain "Cathy" is for such a character in Wuthering Heights.

Polly Flint

Beowulf.

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

Bathsheba Everdene

Oh, and Gabriel Oak for a boy.

Winnie

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

Guyon
Abel
Fulke

I'm called Alice after Alice in Wonderland.

Cormoran Strike

Lyra

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

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

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

Oberon (I actually used it!)

Millicent Mary Amanda

Sorrel

Scout.

Alizarin Belvedon

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...)

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

Baboo Nob Kissin- from Sea of Poppies

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