Unique literary/book-related names?

Names with the same vibe as Verlaine, [name_u]Austen[/name_u], [name_f]Eyre[/name_f], and [name_m]Montague[/name_m]?

Snowe
[name_u]Verne[/name_u]
[name_u]Keats[/name_u]
[name_f]Cressida[/name_f]
[name_m]Benvolio[/name_m]
Radcliffe/Radclyffe
[name_u]Finch[/name_u]
[name_m]Crusoe[/name_m]
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u]
[name_m]Orwell[/name_m]
[name_m]Dilwyn[/name_m]
[name_u]Ripley[/name_u]
[name_m]Ozias[/name_m]
[name_m]Larsen[/name_m]
Marner
Clerval
[name_u]Maurice[/name_u]
[name_u]Quincey[/name_u]
Hester/Hettie
[name_m]Audley[/name_m]
[name_f]Miranda[/name_f]
[name_m]Prosper[/name_m]
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m]
Maylie
[name_m]Thornton[/name_m]
[name_m]Hawthorne[/name_m]
[name_f]Waverley[/name_f]

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[name_m]Martin[/name_m] (George R. R.)
[name_m]King[/name_m] (Stephen)
[name_m]Walden[/name_m] (pond)
[name_u]Alcott[/name_u] (Louisa May)
[name_m]Tolkien[/name_m] (J. R. R.)
[name_m]Shakespeare[/name_m], [name_f]Hathaway[/name_f] (William and his wife, Anne)
[name_m]Dickinson[/name_m] (Emily)
Plumfield, Dovecote, [name_m]Orchard[/name_m] (house)
Steinbeck (John)
Dashwood, [name_u]Darcy[/name_u], [name_u]Bennet[/name_u], Morland (Austen lit.)
[name_u]March[/name_u], [name_u]Campbell[/name_u], [name_u]Laurence[/name_u], [name_u]Vaughn[/name_u] (Alcott lit.)
Vonnegut (Kurt)
[name_u]Thoreau[/name_u] (Henry David)
[name_m]Salinger[/name_m] (J. D.)
[name_u]Carroll[/name_u] (Lewis)
Plath (Sylvia)

I hope these are inspiring!

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Haven’t seen [name_u]Montgomery[/name_u] recommended yet! Also…

[name_m]Whitman[/name_m]
[name_m]Woolf[/name_m]
[name_u]Knightley[/name_u]
[name_u]Fairfax[/name_u]
[name_f]Bronte[/name_f]
[name_u]Meredith[/name_u]
[name_f]Georgette[/name_f]
[name_u]Darcy[/name_u]
[name_m]Gilbert[/name_m]
[name_m]Edmund[/name_m]
[name_u]Wilde[/name_u]
[name_u]Shelley[/name_u]
[name_m]Hemingway[/name_m]
Blyton
[name_m]Twain[/name_m]
[name_m]Mansfield[/name_m]
[name_m]Heywood[/name_m]
[name_m]Frederick[/name_m]

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[name_m]Bertram[/name_m]
[name_f]Villette[/name_f]
[name_u]Grey[/name_u]
Wildfell
[name_m]Heathcliff[/name_m]
[name_m]Maxim[/name_m]
[name_m]Olivier[/name_m]
[name_m]Crewe[/name_m]
Cosway
Gaskell
[name_u]Wilkie[/name_u]
[name_u]Makepeace[/name_u]
[name_m]Thackeray[/name_m]
[name_m]Tennyson[/name_m]
Seacole
Blackmore
[name_u]Carlyle[/name_u]
[name_m]Darwin[/name_m]
[name_m]Coleridge[/name_m]
[name_u]Poe[/name_u]
[name_m]Beecher[/name_m]
[name_m]Stowe[/name_m]
[name_u]Nightingale[/name_u]
[name_f]Sojourner[/name_f]
[name_m]Garrison[/name_m]
[name_m]Kipling[/name_m]
[name_m]Rudyard[/name_m]
[name_m]Bram[/name_m]
[name_m]Stoker[/name_m]

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Ronia (Astrid Lindgren)
Rosalind (Shakespeare)
Calpurnia (Shakespeare)
Celestine (not technically literary, but has the same vibe)
Camille (Dumas fils)
Evangeline (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
Avonlea (Lucy Maud Montgomery)
Louisa (May Alcott)

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[name_f]Ronia[/name_f] is beautiful - I had completely forgotten about that book!

Yeah, it’s been my favorite for a while!

[name_f]Brontë[/name_f]
Virgilius

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[name_f]Ronja[/name_f]
[name_f]Charity[/name_f] (Miss Charity)
[name_f]Astrid[/name_f] (Lindgren)
[name_f]Calpurnia[/name_f]
[name_m]Orlando[/name_m]
[name_u]Bennett[/name_u]
[name_m]Hemingway[/name_m]
[name_u]Blanche[/name_u] (Jane Eyre)
[name_f]Euphrasie[/name_f]
[name_f]Camelia[/name_f] (Lady of Camélia)
[name_m]Edgar[/name_m] (Allan Poe)
[name_u]Poe[/name_u]
[name_f]Georgiana[/name_f]
[name_f]Cosette[/name_f]
[name_f]Adèle[/name_f] (Jane Eyre)
[name_f]Eponine[/name_f]

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[name_f]Catherine[/name_f] (Wuthering Heights)
[name_f]Alice[/name_f] (Alice in Wonderland)
[name_m]Byron[/name_m]
[name_u]Blake[/name_u]
[name_u]Shelley[/name_u] (Mary Shelley/Percy [name_u]Shelley[/name_u] etc)
[name_f]Virginia[/name_f] (Virginia Woolf)
[name_f]Beatrix[/name_f] (Beatrix Potter)
Dickens/Charles
[name_m]Ebenezer[/name_m]
[name_f]Coraline[/name_f]
[name_f]Sylvia[/name_f] (Plath)
Karenina (Anna Karenina)
Tolstoy.

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