Anna: comes from a Lutheran background, doesn't wear much makeup. Straight leg jeans, shorts with pockets half way down the legs, sensible sandals and shoes. Did social work instead of considering medical school. Would have made a great pediatrician. Likes folk music, enjoys potluck dinners with friends.
Julia: comes from an obscure Pentecostal background which she doesn't talk about much, is a bit ditzy, teaches yoga, children go to a Waldorf school, home full of crafts made out of twigs.
Rose: a single older lady. Source of income not really clear, dabbles in creative writing, oil painting, and creates her own jewellery, has traveled to the Himalayan region, lived for a while in California, was known as Roz back in the 60s, knows lots and lots of bass players, and people who died of overdoses.
Lily: birth cert name is Lillian, parents were not ready to go the whole floral hippie hog. Has older sisters with solid names. Favourite dog - golden retriever.
Margot (Maggie): an Irish country and western singer of the 1970s. I can't associate the name with anything else, except perhaps a girl I knew ages ago who had a face like a slapped arse and went all out for 80s hair.
Violet: surprisingly deadly on the lacrosse field.
Susannah: arty, does stage crew in high school, dresses in edgy thrift store clothes, gets a nose piercing, does theatre studies in college, ends up teaching kindergarten.
Charlotte: lawyer, sharp dresser, nails always done, wears Louboutin heels, wakes up early to get a peloton session in before work, likes going to wine tastings and restaurants where they do whiskey flights, with her bevy of pals. Outsources nearly all of the boring details of her life.
Diana: aristocratic English, or Cuban-American matron.
Ruby: has a sister named Scarlett, outgoing, home is very clean, garden full of children's play equipment. Likes puppies. Does a lot of crocheting and charity cake baking. Her daughters wear tutus with wellies.
Lucy: there was once an Irish Times food and restaurant correspondent named Helen Lucy Burke, who was known by wags around town as Helen Loosely Burped.
Apart from that, I see a little Victorian girl swamped in lace and ribbons, wearing little white boots, hair long and impractical, cheeks a little chubby. She will grow up to cut her hair into a bob, wear trousers, smoke cigarettes, become a suffragette, and campaign for better living conditions in the East End.
Natalia: first violin in a Bavarian orchestra, en route to Vienna Philharmonic. Lives in a Brutalist building (good sound insulation) with a Siamese cat and a boyfriend named Tom who are both fussy eaters.