Southern Gothic names (for a girl)?

[Kwini]

Any suggestions, please??

I don't think we can go wtih Flannery...

My daughter is called Merlyn. She's 11 now and I have never met another one!

WTF is Southern Gothic?????

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_gothic

Southern Gothic writers include Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tenessee Williams, Harper Lee...

Merlyn's lovely, Nina - but perhaps a bit Arthurian for us

really? blimey, when i did my eng lit they were just southern lol. when did the gothic bit get tagged on?

you learn something every day...

Too far back I think but I love Poe and would love to have the guts to use Ulalume or Lenore but not really great conotations
Lots of stuff from Tennessee Williams though? Stella?

Lena
Amelia
Laura

still from the genre but a but more mainstream lol?

"when did the gothic bit get tagged on?"

It's a distinct genre - there are plenty of southern writers who don't fall into the Southern Gothic category, IYSWIM...

Those are nice, but a bit too mainstream for us!

'k.

i read a lot of southern writers as part of my degree lol - but lots of antebellum stuff, just hadn't really ever heard of 'southern gothic' as a distinct sub-genre. fortunately it didn't stop me getting a first, so now i'm more worried about what it says about the state of university education really.. still don't grasp what's sooooooo particular about the 'gothic' bit tbh, lots of the texts the wiki says don't apply contain examples of apparently what does make it part of a 'gothic' sub-genre... was going to flick through some of my books (which apparently are southern gothic according to the wiki lol...) but as i'm still confooosed it won't be helpful!

but then i didn't realise why pigs were called 'porky' until i was 14, so not recognising the bleeding obvious is a strong part of my heritage....

hope you find a good name!

I think antebellum's a little early, TBH - southern gothic is very twentieth century, to my mind. Dark, pseudo-supernatural or religious stories (Flannery O'Connor was a goddess at this sort of thing), often quite violent, which often picked up on racial issues...

Sounds like a laugh and a half, doesn't it?!

i can see the appeal....

Blanche
Harper
Scout

scout's been done to death though...

OOh and I know she is not Southern Gothic in the least but Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit alwats sums up the ideas in the genre for me...so Billie?

Blanche is cute!

I like your thinking re. Billie, too - although would need a longer version, ideally...

Agree re. Scout being a bit overdone (don't really want to jump on the To Kill a Mockingbird bandwagon, although they're cute names and the sentiment's great...)

Candace ?

sapphira? (no no too early...)

remembers gothic...

Alma?

Idabel? I love that name!

Erskine
Eudora

Idabel is kinda cute! The DP might take some convincing... Is it from anywhere in particular?

Idabel is from a Truman Capote novel - 'Other Voices, Other Rooms'. She is a young girl, about 14 or 15 I think, a really bolshy, tomboy character.

Idabel

There is also a Florabel in the story, but she is the girly, wet sister

It's going on the list!