Monday, November 16, 2009

What Are Some Gothic/Old-Fashioned Names?

I'm trying to find some gothic or old-fashioned names that everyone's heard of but not very popular.

What Are Some Gothic/Old-Fashioned Names?
Rosamond (A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott, actually it's Rosamond Vivian)





Hester (The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne)





Pearl (ditto)





Victor (Frankenstein by Mary Shelley)





Heathcliff (Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte)





Miles, Flora (both from The Turn of the Screw by Henry James)





Hepzibah (The House of the Seven Gables by Nathaniel Hawthorne)





Conrad (The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole)





Vincentio, Ellena (The Italian by Ann Radcliffe)





Dorian, Sibyl, Basil (The Picture of Dorian Gray)





I hope this helps.





BTW: This site http://www.angelfire.com/id2/heathersnam... has a list of old-fashioned names. It might interest you.
Reply:My favourite is Edward, Is this for a son, because he may get teased. However it is your choice. Another is Edmund or Victoria for a girl.





Hop this helped.


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