[Opinions] Re: Favourite literary / mythological names?
in reply to a message by Lovely
Here are some of my faves. Most of them have other associations, so I'll just put mine in ().
Sabrina (John Milton's Comus)
Miranda (Shakespeare's The Tempest)
Elinor (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
Marianne (same as above)
Phoebe or Phebe (Shakespeare's As You Like It)
Celia (same as above)
Rosalind (ditto)
Viola (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Jane (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice & Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series)
Elizabeth (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
Georgiana (same as above)
Hermione (Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale & JK Rowling's Harry Potter series)
Alice (Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Guinevere (Arthurian legend)
Elaine (same as above)
Sabrina (John Milton's Comus)
Miranda (Shakespeare's The Tempest)
Elinor (Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility)
Marianne (same as above)
Phoebe or Phebe (Shakespeare's As You Like It)
Celia (same as above)
Rosalind (ditto)
Viola (Shakespeare's Twelfth Night)
Jane (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice & Agatha Christie's Miss Marple series)
Elizabeth (Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice)
Georgiana (same as above)
Hermione (Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale & JK Rowling's Harry Potter series)
Alice (Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Guinevere (Arthurian legend)
Elaine (same as above)