Literary names

[tortoiseSHELL]

From another thread...

What literary names are there? (I'm not pg btw, just thought it would be interesting to see what literary characters have called their children!).

I'll start with the one from the other thread.

Anne of Green Gables

Joyce
James Matthew
Walter Cuthbert
Anne (Nan)
Diana
Shirley
Bertha Marilla

And the children from What Katy did

Katherine (Katy)
Clover
Theodore (Dorry)
Elsie
Joanna (John)
Phil

if dc3 is blue in flavour reuben is right up there for us too

We did Greek literature/history for our middle names - Alexander (the Great), Lysander (Spartan Commander) and Athene - first names are AngloGreek, but biblical, I think that counts as literature too

Anna - fortunately my dh vetoed Bathsheba (actually he suggested Vladimir for a boy which I vetoed - fine if we lived in Russia but we don't!)

Felix, Jessamy, Frederica, Edmund, Sylvester, Dominic, Arabella, Charis

(from Georgette Heyer - I'm highbrow me )

I do want to call dc5 Felix actually...

serenity - my stepsons are Alexandre (as in Alexander the Great) and Guillaume (as in William the Conqueror)

I love Lysander from Jilly Cooper's The Man Who Made Husband's Jealous

Jessamy is another one I hankered after but vetoed... Not as hard to bear as Bathsheba, but definitely very odd in France

I'm quite ashamed to confess that I tend to forget the names of the characters of the books I read and love .
I wanted to name dd Natalia, after my favourite italian writer.

califrau

reuben. reuben, reuben, reuben, reuben

reuben, reuben, reuben, reuben, reuben

reuben, reuben, reuben, reuben, reuben

[wink

PMSL Califru

will retreat now and stop trying to make you swoony all over

My middle name is Jessamy, I always thought my mum made it up, now I know she didn't!

I'd have loved to call DD Fuchsia from the Gormenghast books, but noone'd ever spell it, and she'd get called F---sia, so a no-go. But I do love it.