literary names & two middle names
Jun. 25th, 2010 09:11 am1. Since fandom names came up recently, I've been thinking about literary ones. What are your favorite literary names? Least favorite?
We're considering Hazel for a girl, and the middle names I've been mulling over are Jane (as in Jane Austen, we're both big fans, and Jane is a form of my mom's name and his grandma's name), but also wondering if Hazel Anne Elliot (Anne Elliot is the main character in Austen's "Persuasion", and I wrote my undergrad thesis partly on T.S. Eliot) is too cumbersome to work.
2. Which leads me to number 2, how do you feel about multiple middle names? In some cultures, I know (Spanish, Polish, Italian), they're a lot more common, but what about in an English-speaking context? Is it only acceptable if its for the sake of squeezing in a family name?
We're considering Hazel for a girl, and the middle names I've been mulling over are Jane (as in Jane Austen, we're both big fans, and Jane is a form of my mom's name and his grandma's name), but also wondering if Hazel Anne Elliot (Anne Elliot is the main character in Austen's "Persuasion", and I wrote my undergrad thesis partly on T.S. Eliot) is too cumbersome to work.
2. Which leads me to number 2, how do you feel about multiple middle names? In some cultures, I know (Spanish, Polish, Italian), they're a lot more common, but what about in an English-speaking context? Is it only acceptable if its for the sake of squeezing in a family name?