With two new [name_m]Little[/name_m] Women dramatizations coming out this year (a bbc mini series in [name_f]May[/name_f], and a modern adaptation in [name_f]September[/name_f]), I started thinking about the characters and their names. I realized that the first three girls have well coordinated names, multiple syllabic given names with classic single syllable nicknames:
[name_f]Margaret[/name_f] “[name_f]Meg[/name_f]”
[name_f]Josephine[/name_f] “[name_u]Jo[/name_u]”
[name_f]Elizabeth[/name_f] “[name_f]Beth[/name_f]”
The fourth sister, [name_f]Amy[/name_f] has a visually short name, but actually, as a two syllable given name with no nickname, it doesn’t “go” with the others. My question is, what would you have named the fourth sister that would fit the pattern of the other three?
My top choices are:
[name_f]Rosemary[/name_f]/[name_f]Rosalind[/name_f]/[name_f]Rosamond[/name_f] “[name_f]Rose[/name_f]”
[name_f]Louisa[/name_f] “[name_u]Lou[/name_u]”
[name_f]Mary[/name_f] “[name_f]May[/name_f]”
[name_f]Genevieve[/name_f] “[name_f]Gen[/name_f]”
[name_f]Patricia[/name_f] “[name_u]Pat[/name_u]”
[name_f]Dorothy[/name_f] “[name_f]Dot[/name_f]”
[name_f]Anabell[/name_f] “[name_f]Ann[/name_f]”
Since she is a fictional character and we know what her appearance and personality are like, I would probably pick a [name_f]Rose[/name_f] name and give her the nickname [name_f]Rose[/name_f]. If I were their fictional mother, my top choices would be [name_f]Rosamond[/name_f] nn [name_f]Rose[/name_f], [name_f]Mary[/name_f] nn [name_f]May[/name_f], and [name_f]Anabell[/name_f] nn [name_f]Ann[/name_f].
What about you?