Literary Names

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So, I've got a thing about names from books, and we're looking for potential names for a DD2.

I'm thinking things like Dorothy and Alice.

I'd prefer names of nice characters, rather than baddies!

Any other suggestions to throw into the mix?

Justine was my immediate thought
Trilby?

What name isn't in a book? Rather a wide field there!

Bathsheba much underrated IMO.

hmm, perhaps should have been more specific. I'm thinking fairly classic children's books, main female character. Is that a bit narrower?

Christabel (from Possession by A S Byatt)

Lucy (Narnia)

Catherine (Wuthering Heights)

Lorna (Lorna Doone)

Rebecca (Rebecca - although she was probably a baddie)

Elizabeth (Pride & Prejudice)

Tempted to add Rapunzel but that would be childish

George/Georgina (Famous Five - Enid Blyton)

Jo, Meg, Amy, Beth (Little Women)

Mary (the secret garden)

Sara (the little princess)

Susan or Titty (ha!) (swallows and amazons

Good stuff, some we haven't thought of yet, keep them coming.

belleDame and thisisyesterday you're definitely on the right lines

On the literary theme, my friend's DD middle name is Bronte, which I love.

Ruth or Nancy (Arthur Ransome)
Laura (Little house on the prairie)

Lyra (Northern Lights)
Heidi
Wendy
Roald Dahl - Matilda
Katy

Dorothea
Clarissa
Alice
Tess
Heidi
Milly Molly Mandy

Anne (of green gables)

Katy (what katy did)

And to think I avoided "Titty"...!

There's a book called "The Little White Horse" by Elizabeth Goudge that was recently made into a film called Moonacre or something similar. The book is magical. Anyway, the heroine is called Maria but there are two other great names in the book:

Heliotrope
Loveday

Nancy (Swallows and Amazons)

Perdita (Shakespearian but also from a book I read as a child)

Pauline, Posy, Petrova (Ballet Shoes)

Pippi (Pippi Longstocking)

Scout (To Kill A Mockingbird)

Cressida. I love it but don't have another daughter to give it to.

Jemima (puddleduck)

Miranda - The Tempest
Scarlett - Gone With the Wind
Ramona - as in Ramona Quimby (Beverley Cleary)
Sarene - Elantris
Isolde - Tristan and Isolde
Vivien - Blood and Chocolate
Clarissa - History of a Young Lady
Tess - ...of the D'Urbervilles
Corinna - Amores (Ovid)
Lilia - Where Angels Fear To Tread
Briony - Atonement

Amelia Jane (Enid Blyton) - although she was quite naughty

Nan, Diana and Bertha Marilla (Anne of Green Gables children's names)

Pollyanna

Roberta (Bobbie) and Phyliss (The Railway Children)

Elizabeth and Arabella (The Naughtiest girl is a monitor)

Aravis
Susan
Lucy
Polly
Jill all 'narnia' names

Julia in '1984'

Josephine 'Chalet school', 'Little Women' loads others

Dorothea

Anna (karenina)

Nancy

Wendy

Ellen (the silver crown, by R C O Brien)

Ainsley (female character in 'The Edible Woman' by margaret atwood)

Hero, ophelia, Perdita (realy like this!) Shakespearian names

sorry some of those are from adult fiction

(must read posts more carefully on these
threads!)

Pippi

Mary 'Secret Garden'

Marianne (Dreams)

Heidi

Harper (Harper Lee) - I wouldn't normally consider a surname-type name, but I like this one ... (and it's not a character either)

Lyra

Beth, Meg, Amy (little women)

There are so many, and depends whether you want to stay with the classics or go with more modern books.

Some ideas from more modern children's books include...
Matilda (Matilda)
Charlotte (Charlotte Sometimes)
Eloise (Eloise)
Anne and Georgina (Famous Five)
Janet, Barbara and Pam and Susie (Secret Seven)
Darrell, Sally and Felicity (Mallory Towers)
Pat and Isabel (St Clares) Also - Alison, Carlotta and Hilary
Mollie (The wishing chair)
Jo, Bessie and Fannie (Faraway tree)
Elizabeth (Naughtiest girl)