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oulfisI am REALLY enjoying it so far, but a fuller report of the good bits will have to wait until another time. For now, I simply couldn't let it go unrecorded that one of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's granddaughters was named Christabel! Yes, like his very lesbian poem!!
I thought it was bonkers enough that anybody would name their child Christabel Coleridge in the 1840s, but for it to have been one of Coleridge's relatives just makes it even more wild, to me. Alas, she does not appear to have any siblings named Kubla Khan or Ozymandias.
EDIT: omg, for more great names, she was part of a fascinating-sounding ladies' literary society called The Goslings, in which her pen name was CHELSEA CHINA! (Because she was born in Chelsea, presumably, and because ???). These names are fantastic: QUEEN BEE. ALBATROSS. BLUEBELL. FROG.
I'm especially charmed by MAVIS, for Mary Avice Butler, because it's so clearly formed from the sound of her actual name, in exactly the way that nicknames sometimes happen. I'm also charmed by POTATOE.
I thought it was bonkers enough that anybody would name their child Christabel Coleridge in the 1840s, but for it to have been one of Coleridge's relatives just makes it even more wild, to me. Alas, she does not appear to have any siblings named Kubla Khan or Ozymandias.
EDIT: omg, for more great names, she was part of a fascinating-sounding ladies' literary society called The Goslings, in which her pen name was CHELSEA CHINA! (Because she was born in Chelsea, presumably, and because ???). These names are fantastic: QUEEN BEE. ALBATROSS. BLUEBELL. FROG.
I'm especially charmed by MAVIS, for Mary Avice Butler, because it's so clearly formed from the sound of her actual name, in exactly the way that nicknames sometimes happen. I'm also charmed by POTATOE.
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Date: 2019-06-17 04:37 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-06-18 02:58 pm (UTC)"Christabel" just has a ring to it that Geraldine would not…