- Josephine ('Jo'), Margaret ('Meg'), Elizabeth ('Beth'), & Amy--Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
- Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, Catherine ('Kitty'), & Lydia--Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen
- Elinor, Marianne, & Margaret--Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
- Wendy, John, & Michael--Peter and Wendy [aka "Peter Pan"], J. M. Barrie
- Juniper ('Junie') & Oliver--Junie B. Jones, Denise Brunkus
- Peter, Valentine [♀], & Andrew ('Ender')--Ender's Game, Orson Scott Card
- Beatrice ('Beezus'), Ramona, & Roberta; Howard ('Howie') & Willa Jean--Ramona series, Beverly Cleary
- Artemis [♂], Beckett, & Myles--Artemis Fowl series, Eoin Colfer
- Gregor, Elizabeth ('Lizzy'), & Margaret ('Boots')--The Underland Chronicles, Suzanne Collins
- Katy, Clover, Elsie, Dorry [♂], & Joanna ('Johnnie')--What Katy Did series, Susan Coolidge
- Simon, Jane, & Barnabas ('Barney')--The Dark is Rising, Susan Cooper
- Martha, Belinda, Peter, & Timothy ('Tiny Tim') [+ an unnamed brother & sister]--A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens
- Mycroft & Sherlock--the Sherlock Holmes novels, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Louise, Marie [changed to Clara for the ballet], & Fritz--The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, E. T. A. Hoffman
- Sophie, Lettie, & Martha--Howl's Moving Castle, Diana Wynne Jones
- Margaret ('Meg'), Alexander ('Sandy'), Dennys, & Charles Wallace--The Time Quartet, Madeleine L'Engle
- Jeremy ('Jem') & Jean ('Scout')--To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee
- Peter, Susan, Edmund, & Lucy--The Chronicles of Narnia, C. S. Lewis
- Tommy & Annika--Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren
- Jonas, Lily, & Gabriel--The Giver, Lois Lowry
- Wade, Ella, & Eugenie--Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell
- James ('Jem'), Walter, Anne ('Nan'), Diana, Shirley [♂], & Bertha Marilla ('Rilla'); Gerald ('Jerry'), Faith, Una, & Thomas Carlyle ('Carl')--Anne of Green Gables series, Lucy Maud Montgomery
- William, Charlie, Percy, Fred, George, Ronald, & Ginevra ('Ginny')--Harry Potter, J. K. Rowling
- Goneril, Regan, & Cordelia--King Lear, William Shakespeare
- Viola & Sebastian--The Twelfth Night, William Shakespeare
- Violet, Klaus, & Sunny--A Series of Unfortunate Events, Lemony Snicket
- Jane, Michael, John, Barbara, & Annabel--Mary Poppins series, P. L. Travers
- Henry, Jessica ('Jessie'), Violet, & Benjamin ('Benny')--The Boxcar Children, Gertrude Chandler Warner
- Avery & Fern--Charlotte's Web, E. B. White
- Fritz, Ernest, Jack, and Franz [sometimes translated to Francis]--Swiss Family Robinson, Johann David Wyss
Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Literary Siblings
There seems to be a lot of concern over whether siblings' names "fit" together. If your first daughter is Mary, is it okay to go with Moonbeam or Misty for a second? What about Madison or Maliah? Or are you stuck with Mathilda or Mabel? Whether you're in the "same style" camp, the "whatever goes" camp, or somewhere in between, I thought a survey of literary sib-sets--stylish, stodgy, or just plain strange--might be fun.
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What a wonderful list!!! We have named our first two children after literary characters and plan to follow suit with the third - Lord willing!
ReplyDeleteMy husband is a librarian, and even though he doesn't understand my obsession with names, he'll love this post!!