Meaning of Eustasia is “grapes” or productive. I see no connection to Bathsheba and moreover, I still do not understand the origin or relation of the word to the ear canal .
I am a Yorkie and Pit Bull rescuer. I rescue and rehome about 35 dogs a year. All dogs get a literary name. I have a list of names I love and when one comes in, I try to match the personality with the name.
Hope the long list doesnt bother any… 1- Starbuck from mobydick 2- Silas Marner 3- Lolita 4- Hector 5- Ajax 6- Penelope 7- Jonathan from Dracula 😉 8- Othello 9- D Artagnan And finally Mr.K from the castle .. 🙂
Elizabeth
Hester: Scarlet Letter
Honoria (Bleak House)
Emma : Madam Bovary
Atticus: To Kill a Mockingbird
Emily Vanyi-Vine love that name too
My boyfriend is actually named after the book!
Oh wow! And what a dear character to be named after, too!
Agreed!
Stella: Streetcar Named Desire
Willy: Death of a Salesman
Rodion (Raskalnikov) from Crime and Punishment, which is what I named one of my cats.
Catherine : Wuthering Heights
Atticus
Jane. Jane Eyre
Emma – my daughter’s name!
Eustacia from Hardy’s The Reurn of the Native ?
Do you know the meaning of the name?
Beth – little women
Cosette- Les Miserables
Courgette
Jo, Jane
Thérèse – Thérèse Raquin, Émile Zola
Fitzwilliam
Emma!
Too many to count!
Frossia
Bathsheba. Both from the Bible and Thomas Hardy’s Far from the madding crowd.
Patience
Meaning of Eustasia is “grapes” or productive. I see no connection to Bathsheba and moreover, I still do not understand the origin or relation of the word to the ear canal .
There is a Eustachian tube in the ear.
I’m lost.
Yes, Debbie there is. So, how is that canal related to the name we’re talking about? I do not know.
I do not understand Greek.
Patience,
I am totally lost!
Not sure what the connection is. I was just clarifying Eustasia and the Eustachian tube in the ear canal.
Ebenezer
Scarlett, Beth, Jo, Darcey, Emma,
Dulcinea from Don Quixote
Jem- Kill a Mockingbird
Antonia
The ‘lovely and unusual’ name of the narrator of Rebecca by Daphne DuMaurier. She never tells us what it is, but I always wondered.
I know!!!
Tell us, please!
I think she wanted us to have a mystery forever by not giving a name
Elizabeth
F
Dorothea.
Heathcliff
Bathsheba from Far from The Madding Crowd
Miranda
Dorothea.
Gilgamesh
I’m not sure if The Lord of the Rings is considered classical literature… if it were, then I could fill a page with my favourite names 🙂
Of course LOTR is classic!
Pip – Great Expectations
Ophelia ?
I love that name!
@Kathy me too!! I am a huge Hamlet girl?
@Courtney Shakespeare ?
Tess and Angel
Gabriel
Ophelia
My son’s name is Mordred from Morte D’Arthur and my daughter’s middle name is Morgana.
@Cerys well Morgana is a beautiful name
@Cerys best thing I’ve read all day!
Bathsheba Everdeen from Far From The Madding Crowd.
That’s the connection we’ve been trying to make all day!
Juliet. Also, Scout!
Ishmael and Queequeg (also my favorite couple from classic literature)
Onegin , Tatiana , Olga from Eugene Onegin by Pushkin .
@Phoebe from Nathaniel Hawthorne-House of 7 Gables, I think
Beatrice. from @William
Much Ado About Nothing
Bisha. The Bible
Can you tell me where in the Bible?
Thanks
@Kathy I believe it is in 1st Samuel. Abishai is how I think it is.
Caleb is nice
Alice:
Alice in Wonder Land
@DAISY
The Great Gatsby
Bianca, Beatrice, Emilia (from Shakespeare plays)
Catherine
Suddenly Last Summer
Mary from Queen of Scots by S.Zweig
I’ve always been partial to Justine. First time I ever heard the name was when I read the thorn birds years and years and years ago.
Same
Justine?
Doesn’t it have some sort of religious significance
@Kathy I don’t know but it’s also a novel by the Marquis de Sade
I am a Yorkie and Pit Bull rescuer. I rescue and rehome about 35 dogs a year. All dogs get a literary name. I have a list of names I love and when one comes in, I try to match the personality with the name.
I named my daughter Penelope from the The Odyssey.
Hope the long list doesnt bother any… 1- Starbuck from mobydick
2- Silas Marner
3- Lolita
4- Hector
5- Ajax
6- Penelope
7- Jonathan from Dracula 😉
8- Othello
9- D Artagnan
And finally Mr.K from the castle .. 🙂
Classic or classical?
Ruth ( Bible)
Selene, Goddess of the.moon.