The Quest For Middles: Updates!

OK! So after a night of thinking carefully, my favourites have been updated:

[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]/[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] (unsure of which spelling)
[name_f]Pearl[/name_f]
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]
[name_f]Ada[/name_f]
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] (pn em-ehl-line)
[name_f]Violet[/name_f]
[name_f]Priscilla[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f]
[name_f]Ottilie[/name_f]
[name_f]Clara[/name_f]
[name_f]Octavia[/name_f]
[name_f]Rosamund[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f]
[name_f]Honora[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_f]Theodora[/name_f]

The combos I’ve made so far:

[name_f]Theodora[/name_f] [name_f]Primrose[/name_f]
[name_f]Eleanor[/name_f]/[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] [name_f]Josephine[/name_f]
[name_f]Lavinia[/name_f] [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f]
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Caroline[/name_f]/[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Catherine[/name_f]

I’d love some more suggestions, thanks!

[name_f]Happy[/name_f] birthday, [name_u]Haley[/name_u]! I hope your day is wonderful and fun, filled with happiness, cake, balloons and shiny things!

Now to your list.

[name_f]Ada[/name_f]'s very sweet and pretty, I imagine a little girl with blond curls escaping pink ribbons, embroidered cotton dresses, tall wild grass, lavender fields.
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Lavender[/name_f]
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Christabel[/name_f] (from A.S. [name_m]Byatt[/name_m]'s Possession)
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Thomasin[/name_f] (from [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m]'s The Return of the Native)
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] (from [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]'s As You Like It)
[name_f]Ada[/name_f] [name_f]Marianne[/name_f] (from [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u]'s Sense and Sensibility)

[name_f]Agatha[/name_f]'s a dark beauty, a bit quirky, tweed trousers, horn rimmed glasses, bicycles. Her house is full of books and neroli scented candles.
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Iris[/name_f] (from [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]'s The [name_f]Tempest[/name_f])
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f] (from D.H. [name_u]Lawrence[/name_u]'s Lady Chatterley’s Lover)
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Helen[/name_f] (from [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] Brontë’s [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_f]Eyre[/name_f])
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Lucy[/name_f] (from [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] Brontë’s [name_f]Villette[/name_f])
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Mercy[/name_f] (from [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m]‘s [name_f]Tess[/name_f] of the d’Urbervilles)
[name_f]Agatha[/name_f] [name_f]Madeleine[/name_f] (from [name_m]Jeffrey[/name_m] Eugenides’ The Marriage Plot (I know this is a modern American novel, but I think you’d love it!))

[name_f]Allegra[/name_f]'s happiness and dancing, silver bell laughter and frilly frocks.
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f] [name_f]Rosaline[/name_f] (from [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]'s [name_f]Love[/name_f]'s Labour’s Lost)
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f] [name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f] [name_f]Emily[/name_f] ([name_f]Emily[/name_f] Brontë)
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f] [name_f]Marianne[/name_f]
[name_f]Allegra[/name_f] Loveday (from [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] Goudge’s The [name_m]Little[/name_m] White Horse)

[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] is paintings and undying love. Dark shimmering fragile beauty.
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Anne[/name_f] (from [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u]‘s Persuasion)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Esther[/name_f] (from [name_m]Charles[/name_m] Dickens’ Bleak House)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Rosalind[/name_f] (from [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]'s As You Like It)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Viola[/name_f] (from [name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m]'s Twelfth [name_m]Night[/name_m])
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Amarantha[/name_f] (from [name_m]Richard[/name_m] Lovelace’s poem To [name_f]Amarantha[/name_f], That She Would Dishevel Her Hair)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Cassandra[/name_f] (from [name_f]Dodie[/name_f] [name_m]Smith[/name_m]'s I Capture the Castle)
[name_f]Beatrice[/name_f] [name_f]Sally[/name_f] (from [name_m]Philip[/name_m] Pullman’s The [name_u]Ruby[/name_u] in the Smoke)

[name_f]Clara[/name_f]‘s bonnets and silk gowns, porcelain dolls and vintage china.
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] Lovelace ([name_m]Richard[/name_m] Lovelace)
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_f]Margaret[/name_f]
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_f]Hortense[/name_f] (from [name_m]Charles[/name_m] Dickens’ Bleak House)
[name_f]Clara[/name_f] [name_f]Elinor[/name_f] (from [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u]'s Sense and Sensibility)

[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f]'s pink ruffled taffeta gowns, music playing on gramophones, staring endlessly into the horizon waiting for her lost love to return.
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Jane[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Rose[/name_f] (from [name_f]Dodie[/name_f] [name_m]Smith[/name_m]‘s I Capture the Castle)
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Estella[/name_f] (from [name_m]Charles[/name_m] Dickens’ Great Expectations)
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Sally[/name_f]
[name_f]Cordelia[/name_f] [name_f]Honey[/name_f] (from [name_m]Roald[/name_m] Dahl’s [name_f]Matilda[/name_f])

[name_f]Elinor[/name_f]'s old wild overgrown rose gardens, dusty books and oceans of pearls.
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] [name_f]Ophelia[/name_f]
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] [name_f]Cynthia[/name_f] (from [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] Gaskell’s Wives and Dauhters)
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] [name_f]Fiammetta[/name_f]
[name_f]Elinor[/name_f] [name_f]Theodosia[/name_f]

[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f]'s daisy chains and faery wings, threading wild strawberries on straws and fishing fror crabs in her princess outfit.
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Daphne[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Cassandra[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Lucy[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Cynthia[/name_f]
[name_f]Emmeline[/name_f] [name_f]Cosima[/name_f]

[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]'s lace and tea parties. [name_f]Strawberry[/name_f] blonde hair, reading poetry on divans, lace curtains fluttering in the wind.
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_u]Hero[/name_u] (from [name_m]Christopher[/name_m] [name_u]Marlowe[/name_u]'s [name_u]Hero[/name_u] and [name_m]Leander[/name_m])
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] ([name_f]Charlotte[/name_f] Brontë)
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Tess[/name_f] (from [name_m]Thomas[/name_m] [name_m]Hardy[/name_m]'s [name_f]Tess[/name_f] of the d’Urbervilles)
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Margaret[/name_f] (from [name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] Gaskell’s [name_u]North[/name_u] and South)
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Prudence[/name_f]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f] [name_f]Constance[/name_f]

I’ll do the rest later, I need to cuddle with my baby.

@ottilie thank you! no cake yet, but I did get a few shiny things for my birthday :wink: haha! Thank you so much, I love that you included [name_f]Jane[/name_f] [name_u]Austen[/name_u]! I love so many of these names! :slight_smile: Can’t wait to hear your other ideas!