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Raise a glass of something green to the ‘inimitable’ Marge: shrewd, passionate and nobody’s fool. This is an ode to her cheerful mercenary nous and Lorelei charm. ...More than a match for our Lads. I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Ex's and Oh's' by Elle King.

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100 Fiction Books to Read Before You Die

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

A Small Place by Jamaica Kincaid

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Sparks

The Girl by Meridel Le Sueur

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

The Color Purple by Alice Walker

The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver

Veronica by Mary Gaitskill

Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf

Kindred by Octavia Butler

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

Passing by Nella Larson

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Play it as it Lays by Joan Didion

The House of Spirits by Isabel Allende

Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

White Teeth by Zadie Smith

The Power by Naomi Alderman

The Street by Ann Petry

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

Mary Barton by Elizabeth Gaskill

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones

Small Island by Andrea Levy

The Idiot by Elif Batuman

The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton

The Price of Salt/Carol by Patricia Highsmith

Room by Emma Donoghue

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

Garden of Earthly Delights by Joyce Carol Oates

Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

Wise Blood by Flannery O Conner

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn

Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsey

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

The Awakening by Kate Chopin

Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie Flagg

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros

The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall

House of Incest by Anaïs Nin

The Mandarins by Simone de Beauvoir

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

Corregidora by Gayl Jones

Whose Names are Unknown by Sanora Babb

Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood

See Now Then by Jamaica Kincaid

The Lowland by Jhumpa Lahiri

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver

The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy

To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf

My Antonia by Willa Cather

Democracy by Joan Didion

Black Water by Joyce Carol Oates

The Violent Bear it Away by Flannery O Connor

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

I Must Betray You be Ruta Sepetys

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Mare by Mary Gaitskill

City of Beasts by Isabel Allende

Fledgling by Octavia Butler

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

The First Bad Man by Miranda July

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Moses, Man of the Mountain by Zora Neale Hurston

Disobedience by Naomi Alderman

Quicksand by Nella Larsen

The Narrows by Ann Petry

The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir

Under the Sea by Rachel Carson

Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee

Under the Net by Iris Murdoch

The Birdcatcher by Gayl Jones

Desert of the Heart by Jane Rule

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez

The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa

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We finally meet the naturalist Stapleton in chapter VII of The Hound of the Baskervilles from Letters from Watson!

Before I get into that fascinating duo, a few thoughts so disjointed that I'm giving them subheads so as to move quickly.

Trains

Thanks to @stephensmithuk pointing out that the rail trip from London to Devon would have taken 5-1/2 hours at the time of the tale (and promising more about trains! I love hearing about trains!), I was prepared to abandon my suspicions of Barrymore. But then it turns out, nobody saw him when the telegraph was delivered!

It's a lesson to me in how being from the future affects my expectations. I read and re-read a lot of Agatha Christie and Dorothy Sayers, so when presented with a train and a limited time frame, I assume it's a timetable problem. Nope -- it was a social engineering problem.

Mrs. Barrymore and invisible people

after breakfast I met Mrs. Barrymore in the long corridor with the sun full upon her face. She was a large, impassive, heavy-featured woman with a stern set expression of mouth. But her tell-tale eyes were red and glanced at me from between swollen lids. It was she, then, who wept in the night, and if she did so her husband must know it. 

Mrs. Barrymore's grief -- or the possibility that her husband is beating her -- gets no sympathy from Dr. Watson, and little interest beyond what it means about her husband as a suspect in Sir Charles' death. She's coded as absolutely failing at Victorian standards of femininity, so while she may or may not be a villain, nobody cares if she's a victim.

“There are only two women in the house, Sir Henry,” he answered. “One is the scullery-maid, who sleeps in the other wing...."

We were told in the prior chapter that this house is minimally staffed. I'm now wondering how many other unnamed servants are present but not mentioned even as witnesses. There must be a gardener to maintain the Yew Alley, though he may not sleep in. (A scullery maid is a servant to the household servants, with a life of drudgework. This description from Manor House covers it. She's probably too hired to hound anyone to their death.)

When Sir Henry has "numerous papers to examine," is he meeting with an estate manager? There would ordinarily be a professional, non-servant person charged with keeping the estate running smoothly.

Chekhov's Swamp

After all the build-up that Grimpen Mire gets, there had better be a desperate chase across it.

The Stapletons

The Stapletons are not gentry: they're tenants of Merripit Hall, not its heirs, and Mr. Stapleton says he used to run a boy's school far enough away that nobody will check his story. They appear to be roughly equal in class with James Mortimer -- a tier of educated professionals who don't hold land or titles.

If Stapleton lost his savings when his school failed, and he has no paying work in Devon, how are he and his sister affording Merripit Hall. Even if we assume it's a modernized Dartmoor Longhouse, it's a chunk of property bigger than a cottage in a village.

(House to the left, original stables to the right. By Derek Harper, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=9244192 )

That said, I do heartily agree with @thefisherqueen that Jack Stapleton is coded as harmless. Slim, flaxen-haired, and eccentric is the English coding for "harmless" -- to the point that Dorothy Sayers will, decades later, call it out in her depiction of Lord Peter Wimsey (who is mistaken for harmless, but is not harmless). Margery Allingham does the same when she introduces Albert Campion (who is mistaken for harmless, but is not harmless).

Here's Peter Davison as Albert Campion. Stapleton to the life.

When Stapleton goes romping after a cyclopides -- a sort of South African moth-like insect not found in England -- a wild sister appears!

Okay, in normal daily life, if a brother and sister look different, I figure "genetics are weird" and roll with it. But this is a constructed narrative, where details are chosen for a specific effect (or because it was top-of-mind for the author, but that's more for small details). Beryl Stapleton is distinctly coded as non-English.

she was darker than any brunette whom I have seen in England

Since we've already established that the Baskervilles run to black hair, this must mean skin color. Now, the standard "English rose" is very pale, so being darker than that could be any shade of tan at all.

That "unusual lisp" in her speech suggests that she grew up somewhere that Spanish was spoken and where the "upper class" accent included the Castilian distinción. if this were a modern story, that would rule out South America, but in 1889, I don't think it does.

The fact that she can run points to her being somewhat of an avante garde and artistic type. Fashion of the late 1880s combined corsets with tight skirts, bustles, and miles of heavy trim, so a good sprint was not indicated. Beryl Stapleton most likely wears some sort of "artistic dress," "aesthetic dress," or "liberty dress," which was constructed to allow more freedom of breath and movement. (Maggie May Fashions has a page comparing artistic dress to mainstream fashion; it also includes less binding clothing worn for cycling and tennis, raising the possibility that Beryl Stapleton is athletic rather than artistic.)

My original hypothesis about Miss Stapleton being "a young lady of attractions" was that she had a large dowry. Now I question that! If there is family money, it must have been settled on her separately and protected from her brother's bad luck. But this Miss Stapleton does not appear to want to be married, since she believes she's warning Sir Henry, the most eligible bachelor for miles, to leave.

Her words say "victim" (since she's warning people to leave but seems trapped herself), yet she's coded as a femme fatale. Given this week in history, I'm feeling very, very squeamish about how narrow codings of "feminine" are used against women who don't fit that mold, so I'd love to discover that Beryl is simply a dark-complected woman who isn't delighted by what's going on around her.

Now I want to walk the moors and brood around the neolithic ruins, being careful not to fall into mires.

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The Velveteen Rabbit (or How Toys Become Real) is a British children's book written by Margery Williams. The story was first published in Harper's Bazaar in 1921 featuring illustrations from Williams' daughter Pamela Bianco. It was published as a book in 1922

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Kirsa and Harvey's Bookstore Scavenger Hunt Date

Chapter 35 of The Courage to Fly , "Kiwi's New Boyfriend" is officially posted after a long and unplanned hiatus! Kirsa and Harvey are on the first (technically second) date and doing a scavenger hunt in the bookstore that Kirsa's parents own - The Literature Closet. It was a LOT of words that weren't really necessary for the chapter, but I still wanted to share them somewhere that people might find them. So here you can find their scavenger hunt and their notes about the books they chose.

Bookstore Scavenger Hunt

Rules:

Books can only be used once - no repeats.

If you pass your partner while searching for a book, you must pause to interact with them; exchange a kiss, a hug, talk for a moment, etc.

Make sure to write down the books you chose for each question so you can remember them later.

Purchase at least one book you picked out.

Find a book that is one of your all-time favorites.

Kirsa: The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood – what a fascinating story that feels a little too close to real life sometimes. I loved this book because it is utterly captivating, relatable, and mildly terrifying while also being an excellent read.

Harvey: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – while the story can be heavy at times, it’s one of the most relatable books I’ve ever read. Charlie manages to be hilarious and devastating all at once, and the book never fails to hit home.

Find a book that was a favorite when you were a child, or one that holds a special childhood memory.

Kirsa: The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupery – this is the first book I remember Dad reading to me. He used to read it to Leo and me all the time as a bedtime story. There’s something about searching for what’s really important in life that always stuck with me.

Harvey: The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams – Dad rarely read books to Heidi and I, but Sybil did, and this was the story she usually picked to read us when we were little. After the accident, I latched onto the idea of being loved even when you aren’t the most appealing.

Find a book featuring a main character with the career you wanted to have when you grew up.

Kirsa: The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton – a book I read in high school on Papa’s recommendation. I think he wanted me to give up the whole doctor thing, but the suspense and high stakes of this story only served to fascinate me more.

Harvey: Catch-22 by Joseph Heller – a pilot in a war novel? That was everything I ever wanted as a kid. Right up until I realized I was terrified of heights.

Find a box set of books in a series you love.

Kirsa: A Song of Ice and Fire by George R.R. Martin – I actually started reading Game of Thrones when the show came out, but I never got through it because of med school and work. When I joined the military, Papa sent me the set after I said I finally finished the first one during training so I could read the others. I ended up reading the whole series before I hit my first anniversary in the air force. My set is super worn now, because I’ve reread them so many times, so this nice leather-bound set is tempting.

Harvey: The Sherlock Holmes Collection by Arthur Conan Doyle – what can I say? I was always captivated by the mystery, trying to solve it myself as I read. I haven’t seen the entire series together with these vintage style gold-foil embossed covers.

Find your favorite banned book.

Kirsa: Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury – it will never not be funny that they ban a book about the dangers of censorship. I will never stop laughing about it. It’s one of Papa’s favorites, too.

Harvey: To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee – I know what you said about picking this one – which is absolutely why I picked it. Because it IS banned in schools a lot of the time, but also because YOU told me we couldn’t choose it for our list.

Find a book you love to reread that is different from your favorite.

Kirsa: Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne – I’ve always LOVED these stories and go back to them a lot, especially lately. I just love reading about Pooh and his friends, even though I know most of these stories by heart.

Harvey: The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien – Landon was the one who got me into this whole series, insisting I read The Hobbit a few months before my car accident. I liked it but hadn’t gotten around to the other books yet. I practically inhaled them when I was recovering, and somehow I dragged Heidi into reading them with me. Which morphed into ALL of our friends plus Sybil reading them around the same time. Fellowship was the first movie Heidi and I were able to go see in theaters after the accident – it was a whole ordeal. I’ve got at least four different sets of the series, but this leather one is incredibly tempting.

Find a book with one of your favorite tropes.

Kirsa: The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins – a dystopian setting with a Friends to Lovers trope? This checked ALL the boxes for me and I can never say no to those particular tropes.

Harvey: Eragon by Christopher Paolini – I’ve got a soft spot for The Chosen One stories, especially when they have an epic quest they have to go on in order to save the world.

Find a book that made you cry.

Kirsa: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes – I read this book in a single sitting, flying back from a short-term leave at home. I picked it up in the airport, figuring it would be an easy read after I finished the books I’d brought with me. I did not expect to fall so in love with the characters and be completely devastated. There I was, a high-ranking military officer ugly crying on the plane at like three in the morning, angrily shushing Hayden every time he asked me if I was ok. We got a lot of strange looks.

Harvey: All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr – I was absolutely glued to this book and couldn’t put it down until I finished it. Even though it was emotional, I’ve never regretted reading it. 

Find a book you HATED reading in school – or one that you were supposed to read but never did.

Kirsa: The Awakening by Kate Chopin – the ending makes me irrationally angry, every single fucking time. How does one walk ambiguously into the damn sea. God I hate this book. I’m kinda mad Papa even carries it.

Harvey: Animal Farm by George Orwell – I just never read it. I was supposed to, but the week after we started it I had a procedure on my shoulder that turned into a bigger surgery and landed me in the hospital for a little over two weeks. By the time I was back in school, we were about to have a test on it and I still hadn’t actually read it. I just read the Sparknotes and asked Heidi and Will to help me study for our test.

Find a book in your least favorite genre.

Kirsa: Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn – thrillers are never my first choice. I’ve got too much anxiety for that. But I wanted to read the book before we watched the movie, and I really shouldn’t have. I was both hooked and horrified.

Harvey: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley – If you think I’m friends with Landon without having read the most iconic science fiction book ever, I don’t know what to tell you. He insisted Will and I read it. Still a lot too close to horror for my comfort, and honestly I wish I’d never read it.

Find a book ‘everyone’ has read – except you.

Kirsa: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams – my entire squad has read this stupid thing, but I can’t get more than halfway through it. I just get bored. Gavin tries to convince me to start it again like every six months. 

Harvey: Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson – I skipped it as a kid because it was a little too close to home with what Heidi and I went through. I’ve heard it’s a great book, but I never wanted to read it. 

Find a book with one of your favorite love stories.

Kirsa: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks – is there any more iconic love story? It makes me believe in that kind of everlasting love even when shit’s hitting the fan.

Harvey: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green – one of those painfully real love stories that rips your heart out and stomps on it. But it’s so very relatable.

Find a book with a color in its title.

Kirsa: The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne – come on, you can never go wrong with the iconic red A. It’s a classic.

Harvey: Black Beauty by Anna Sewell – who doesn’t love a story with an animal protagonist? Besides, this horse is living his best life despite countless hardships.

Find a book whose movie or TV adaptation was actually good.

Kirsa: The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot – I fucking love this book and the whole series, but the movie makes the whole story a lot more cohesive. And the whole scene with Mia’s gym teacher where she’s like “I can’t do this, I’m a girl.” And the teacher is all “What am I? A duck?” is just perfection.

Harvey: Holes by Louis Sachar – Shia LaBeouf made the perfect Stanley Yelnats, Sigourney Weaver as a villain was iconic, and “I’m tired of this Grandpa...” “Well, that’s too damn bad!” is a scene that will never stop being funny.

Find a book BASED on a TV series, movie, or video game.

Kirsa: The Stolen Throne by David Gaider – I only started this book because Hayden wouldn’t shut up about it and he was pissy because I laughed at him for sobbing his eyes out at three in the morning when he finished it. Of course, I got completely enraptured by the story and read the entire thing in less than five hours, also ugly crying. Hayden got mad because I stole the next book from his pack while he was still in the middle of reading it.

Harvey: The Rise of Kyoshi by F.C. Yee – I picked it up when it came out but haven’t read it yet. After loving The Last Airbender so much, I figured this would be a good read. Plus, Kyoshi seems like an avatar who would have an interesting story to follow. 

Find a book with multiple points of view.

Kirsa: As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner – I think I was the only person in my class who actually liked this book. The whole thing being told by various narrators in a messy and confusing timeline made it all the more interesting to me, trying to piece the story together as I went.

Harvey: Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte – we never read this is school like most people, and I finally got around to it last year. I honestly loved the whole love story recounted from multiple perspectives. I didn’t think I’d like the book as much as I did.

Find a book with a one-word title.

Kirsa: Matilda by Roald Dahl – a classic, and one about a nerdy girl trying to navigate a complicated life. I related.

Harvey: Dracula by Bram Stoker – don’t ask me why I read another horror book by choice because I don’t know. But it’s one of the great masterpieces of the genre, and for good reason. It took me ages to get through it, but I’m glad I eventually did.

Find a graphic novel that interests you.

Kirsa: Lore Olympus by Rachel Smythe – I kinda forgot this was being printed now and I NEED these books. I’ve been reading the webcomic for years. I’ve gotta ask Papa to put me on the preorder list for the releases of the hardbacks.

Harvey: The Sandman by Neil Gaiman – I keep telling Landon I’ll read this series, but I keep not actually buying the book. He insists I’ll enjoy it, and I’m sure he’s right, I just keep finding other things to read.

Find a book recommended by one of the booksellers.

Kirsa: A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas – you don’t understand how hard this was for me. Papa and the rest of the staff know my book preferences like the backs of their hands. They sent my whole squad care packages once a month with new books to read based on what we liked and didn’t like. But Madeline told me this is a good enemies to lovers story that’s basically a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, so we’re gonna give it a shot. It’s up my alley.

Harvey: The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss – I'll be honest, I don't remember who I talked to about this, but they asked me what stories I liked most and instantly pulled this book off a shelf and handed it to me saying ‘trust me’ and after reading the back of it? A story about a fantasy hero but a Chosen One narrative that’s flipped on its head a bit? Seems like a book I’ll enjoy.

Find a book you think your partner might like.

Kirsa: Airframe by Michael Crichton – I figured a thriller set on a plane would be up your alley. Harvey: HA. It IS up my alley, but I’ve already read it and it so did not help my fear of heights. I now have a lifetime of extra white-knuckled anxiety thanks to that book.

Harvey: The Night and its Moon by Piper C.J. – based on what I’ve seen you read, the summary on the back sounded like it would interest you – lovers who will do anything to reunite? That’s all you. Of course, I opened the book and meant to read the first few pages, but snorted as I read the dedication and figured you’d appreciate the book for that alone if nothing else. Kirsa: Oh this sounds delightful. I need to read this. But also oh my God that dedication.

Find books that have titles beginning with one of your partner’s initials (3 books).

Kirsa: Heidi by Johanna Spyri – Harvey: Funny. You’re funny. Kirsa: Oh come on, it was right there. I couldn’t help myself.  Walden by Henry David Thoreau.  Lord of the Flies by William Golding.

Harvey: Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen – Kirsa: I fucking love this book. Harvey: I remembered you telling me she was one of your favorite authors, I thought it was fitting. Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. The Martian by Andy Weir.

Find a book with a title that describes how you feel about your partner (funny, serious, silly, etc.).

Kirsa: The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain – after you telling me about your childhood and knowing you lived on microwave meals for years before I moved to the farm? It’s perfect for you.

Harvey: Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein – when the world ends, where do you go? You went to the farm and found a new path. It seemed fitting.

Find a non-fiction book about something that you’d like to learn more about or something that you’d like to learn how to do.

Kirsa: National Geographic: Birds of The Ferngill Republic – I keep seeing all kinds of different birds around the farm and it’d be neat to be able to identify some of them.

Harvey: Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson – I know a decent bit about space thanks to spending so much time listening to Maru go on about it. But talking to you about the meteor shower a few weeks ago made me curious. And it'd be nice to talk about it in more detail with you.

Find something to do together on a future date.

Kirsa: Incredible Paper Airplanes – Dad dragged me to see this kit when he finally found me in the store earlier. It’s cheesy as hell, but it actually looks kinda fun. There’s a ton of different models to make and all kinds of origami paper.

Harvey: Galaxy Watercolor – Paint the Universe – I was stuck on this question for a while and Hannah found me trying to find something you’d like. She suggested this but didn’t give me much of an explanation, so if you hate the idea – No! I love it! It looks fantastic.

Find a recipe to make together (a drink, a meal, a dessert, etc.).

Kirsa: Melon Salad – I’ve got like six varieties of melon seeds to plant this year and this recipe is just a bunch of melons in a fruit salad. I thought it sounded fun. 

Harvey: Cookie Pig – I couldn’t resist the sugar cookies decorated like pigs. They look like the ones Harry had.

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A Century of Books: 1900′s

1900′s

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum (1900)

Up From Slavery by Booker T. Washington (1901)

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle (1902)

The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois (1903)

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair (1906)

1910′s

Peter and Wendy by J.M. Barrie (1911)

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (1911)

Dubliners by James Joyce (1914)

The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka (1915)

The Rainbow by D.H. Lawrence (1915)

1920′s

The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie (1920)

The Wasteland by T.S. Eliot (1922)

The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams (1922)

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1925)

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (1926)

1930′s

The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett (1930)

Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell (1936)

Nightwood by Djuna Barnes (1936)

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston (1937)

The Sword in the Stone by T.H. White (1939)

1940′s

Native Son by Richard Wright (1940)

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (1943)

The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams (1944)

Goodnight Moon by Margaret Wise Brown (1947)

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell (1949)

1950′s

The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger (1951)

Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison (1952)

Wise Blood by Flannery O’Connor (1952)

Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury (1953)

Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (1958)

1960′s

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee (1960)

The Autobiography of Malclom X by Alex Haley and Malcolm X (1965)

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote (1966)

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (1968)

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)

1970′s

Roots by ALex Haley (1976)

The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston (1976)

The Shining by Stephen King (1977)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (1979)

Kindred by Octavia Butler (1979)

1980′s

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (1982)

The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros (1984)

Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde (1984)

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987)

A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking (1988)

1990′s

The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien (1990)

The Secret History by Donna Tartt (1992)

Jazz by Toni Morrison (1992)

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (1996)

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy (1997)

Do you have a favorite literary decade?

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Made | John Mackenzie | 1972

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what i‘ve read

(links to my own posts abt the respective books)

2024

frankenstein(mary shelley, reread)

the demon and miss prym (paulo coelho)

satyricon (petronius)

the word for world is forest (ursula k le guin)

2023

crime and punishment (dostoyevski)

life ceremony (sayaka murata)

rule of wolves (leigh bardugo)

in the penal colony (franz kafka)

undine (de la motte fouqué)

earthlings (sayaka murata)

dark matter (blake crouch)

the old man and the sea (ernest hemmingway)

the secret history (again.) (donna tartt)

annihilation (jeff vandermeer)

king of scars (leigh bardugo)

the little friend (donna tartt)

reeling (lola lafon)

fleisch mit weißer soße (christian schmacht)

tschick (why we took the car) (wolfgang herrndorf)

a little life (hanya yanagihara)

the left hand of darkness (ursula k. le guin)

2022

what i've read in 2022 (blogpost) 2022 reading recap (tag)

in my dreams i hold a knife (ashley winstead)

the gambler (dostoyevsky)

maurice (e. m. forster)

ninth house (leigh bardugo)

ordinary thunderstorms (william boyd)

tausend zeilen lüge (juan moreno)

the war of the worlds (h. g. wells)

entschuldigen sie meine störung (jan-uwe fitz)

dark side of the moon (martin suter)

the reader (bernhard schlink)

house of leaves (mark z danielewski)

the alchemist (paulo coelho)

versteckt (simon beckett)

letters to a young poet (rainer maria rilke)

the vampire diaries the return: nightfall (book 5, lisa j. smith, reread)

the vampire diaries 3+4 (lisa j. smith, reread)

ari and dante dive into the waters of the world (benjamin alire sáenz)

ari and dante discover the secrets of the universe (benjamin alire sáenz, reread)

moby dick (herman melville, abridged)

tender is the flesh (agustina bazterrica)

arsene lupin, gentleman burglar (maurice leblanc)

convenience store woman (sayaka murata)

the vampire diaries 1+2 (lisa j. smith, reread)

2021

what i‘ve read in 2021 (blogpost) 2021 reading recap (tag)

verity (colleen hoover)

the trial (franz kafka)

the stranger (albert camus)

six of crows and crooked kingdom (leigh bardugo)

shadow and bone (trilogy) (leigh bardugo)

one flew over the cuckoo’s nest (ken kesey)

the witcher (blood of elves) (andrzej sapkowski)

something in the water (catherine steadman)

marianengraben (jasmin schreiber)

do androids dream of electric sheep? (blade runner) (p. k. dick)

reykjavík noir (snare, trap, cage) (lilja sigurdadottir)

red white royal blue (casey mcquiston)

2020

what i‘ve read in 2020 (blogpost)

thirteen storeys (jonathan sims)

charley’s web (joy fielding)

stone butch blues (leslie feinberg)

the death of iwan ilyitsch (leo tolstoy)

the wicked cometh (laura carlin)

nach uns die pinguine (hans stein)

the tiger in the smoke (margery allingham)

the great gatsby (f. scott fitzgerald)

american gods (neil gaiman)

töchter (lucy fricke)

2019

the goldfinch (donna tartt)

macbeth (jo nesbo)

moriarty (anthony horowitz)

der pfau (isabel bogdan)

the girl on the train (paula hawkins)

lord of the flies (william golding)

if we were villains (m. l. rio)

fahrenheit 451 (ray bradbury)

2018 and earlier

trainspotting (irvene welsh)

the secret history (donna tartt)

a clockwork orange (anthony burgess)

the hound of the d'urbervilles (kim newman)

the picture of dorian gray (oscar wilde)

1984 (george orwell)

animal farm (george orwell)

frankenstein (mary shelley)

the vampire diaries (lisa j. smith)

aristotle and dante discover the secrets of the universe (benjamin alire saenz)

love, simon. (becky albertally)

a long way down (nick hornby)

fight club (chuck palahniuk)

wonder (raquel j. palacio)

island of the blue dolphins (scott o’dell)

the girl with glass feet (ali shaw)

fever (karen marie moning)

insel der dämonen (torsten fink)

lots of sherlock holmes stories (arthur conan doyle)

lights on the sea (miquel reina)

schattensturm (andreas d. hesse)

rabenmond (jenny-mai nuyen)

tschick: why we took the car (wolfgang herrendorf)

to kill a mockingbird (harper lee)

[justforbooks]

Clara Margery Melita Sharp was born on 25 January 1905. She was an English author of 25 novels for adults, 14 children's novels, four plays, two mysteries, and numerous short stories. Her best known work is The Rescuers series about two mice named Bernard and Miss Bianca, which was later adapted in two animated feature films – The Rescuers and The Rescuers Down Under – by Disney.

Sharp was born in the district of Salisbury in the county of Wiltshire, England, although her family originated from northern Yorkshire. She spent part of her childhood in Malta, a period she later drew on for her novel The Sun in Scorpio. In 1914 she returned to Britain and studied at Streatham High School. She read French at Bedford College, University of London. She then spent a year studying art at Westminster Art School. While studying she joined the British University Women's Debating Team and was a member of the first team to compete in the United States.

Punch magazine began publishing her stories when she was 21. She went on to write for a number of American and British magazines, including Harper's Bazaar, Ladies' Home Journal and Good Housekeeping. Sharp's first novel, Rhododendron Pie, took her a month to write and was published in 1930.

In 1938 she married aeronautical engineer Major Geoffrey Castle. During World War II she worked for three years as an Army Education Lecturer; during this time she wrote the novel Cluny Brown and worked on Britannia Mews, which described the bombing of London.

In 1940 her seventh novel, The Nutmeg Tree, was adapted into a Broadway play, The Lady in Waiting. In 1948 the book was adapted into the Hollywood film Julia Misbehaves, starring Greer Garson and Walter Pidgeon. One of her most popular novels, Cluny Brown, the story of a plumber's niece turned parlourmaid, was also made into a Hollywood film by Ernst Lubitsch in 1946, with Academy Award winner Jennifer Jones in the title role. The rights for the novel Britannia Mews were bought in 1946 by 20th Century Fox, and it was released as The Forbidden Street in 1949. The 1963 film The Notorious Landlady was based on her 1956 short story "The Notorious Tenant".

In 1959 she published The Rescuers, and though written for an adult audience it became hugely popular with children. Sharp continued the series with a further eight books, illustrated by Garth Williams – who had previously illustrated other children's classics such as Charlotte's Web and Stuart Little – and Erik Blegvad. In 1977 Walt Disney Productions released the animated feature film The Rescuers, which had critical acclaim and financial success, followed by a sequel, The Rescuers Down Under, in 1990.

Selected works

Adult novels

Rhododendron Pie (1930)

Fanfare for Tin Trumpets (1932)

The Nymph and The Nobleman (1932)

The Flowering Thorn (1934)

Sophy Cassmajor (1934)

Four Gardens (1935)

The Nutmeg Tree (1937), which was made into the film Julia Misbehaves

Harlequin House (1939)

The Stone of Chastity (1940)

Three Companion Pieces (1941) – contains Sophy Cassmajor, The Tigress on the Hearth and The Nymph and the Nobleman

Cluny Brown (1944), which was made into a movie of the same title

Britannia Mews (1946), which was made into the film The Forbidden Street

The Foolish Gentlewoman (1948)

Lise Lillywhite (1951)

The Gipsy in the Parlour (1954)

The Tigress on the Hearth (1955)

The Eye of Love (1957) – Martha Trilogy I

Something Light (1960)

Martha in Paris (1962) – Martha Trilogy II

Martha, Eric and George (1964) – Martha Trilogy III

The Sun in Scorpio (1965)

In Pious Memory (1967)

Rosa (1969)

The Innocents (1972)

The Lost Chapel Picnic and Other Stories (1973)

The Faithful Servants (1975)

Summer Visits (1977)

Children's novels

Melisande (1960)

Lost at the Fair (1965)

The Magical Cockatoo (1974)

The Children Next Door (1974)

The Rescuers series

The Rescuers (1959)

Miss Bianca (1962)

The Turret (1963)

Miss Bianca in the Salt Mines (1966)

Miss Bianca in the Orient (1970)

Miss Bianca in the Antarctic (1971)

Miss Bianca and the Bridesmaid (1972)

Bernard the Brave (1977)

Bernard into Battle (1978)

Other

"The Notorious Tenant" (1956), short story on which the movie The Notorious Landlady was based

Sharp died in Aldeburgh, Suffolk on 14 March 1991. In 2008 all of her adult books except for The Eye of Love were out of print, but in 2016 Kindle editions of ten of her novels were issued.

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[paralleljulieverse]

“Every peach out of reach is attractive...”

Producer Saul Chaplin and director Robert Wise confer with actor Daniel Massey during filming of the “Forbidden Fruit” number in STAR! (1968). The number was filmed over several days from 28 April-2 May 1967 on Stage 14 at 20th Century Fox Studios on the “Vaudeville Theatre” set designed by Boris Leven.

Determined to do not only his own singing but also piano playing in STAR!, Daniel Massey undertook three months of intensive training in preparation. In the commentary for the 1993 laserdisc release, Massey explained that: 

“So often you see actors who are impersonating composers and you never see their hands actually on the keys but I thought it was terribly important that that should happen. Bob (Wise) agreed and we found this sainted man, Jack Latimer, who sat with me month after month and Jack Latimer taught me to do it” (���Commentary” 1993; see also West 1967). 

Bonus bit of trivia:   Massey’s piano teacher, Jack Latimer, was a prominent accompanist who had worked with the likes of Dinah Shore and Betty Hutton. A decade or so after helping Massey with his Coward impersonation, Harper performed honours as one of two accompanists at a star-studded memorial tribute to Noel Coward hosted by the University of Southern California in 1980 (Thomas 1980; USC 1981). The other pianist at the event was Harper MacKay, a noted Hollywood composer and musician who, among many credits, worked on Julie’s 1965 TV special,  The Julie Andrews Show and again later on Darling Lili (1970). Intensifying the “six degrees” connections even further, Harper MacKay’s wife, Margery MacKay, dubbed the singing voice of Peggy Wood for the “Climb Ev’ry Mountain” number in The Sound of Music (1965).

Sources:

“Commentary” STAR! 1968/1993 [Laserdisc]. Los Angeles: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment.

Thomas, Kevin 1980. “Tribute to Coward at Town and Gown” The Los Angeles Times. 26 February: pp. VI-1,8.

USC 1981. Remembering Noel Coward. Los Angeles: Friends of the USC Libraries.

West, Alice Pardoe 1967. “Behind the Scenes: Daniel Massey.” TV Etcetera Magazine. 28 May: 10.

Copyright © Brett Farmer 2021

[qqueenofhades]

Thanks for writing DVLA, it was wonderful. I haven’t gotten that absorbed in something in a while, and I read it twice while on a camping trip this weekend. And then spent a lot of time just staring out the window being sad about the Crusades and just these two beautiful queer disasters in general. (A HUNDRED YEARS OF PINING. I LOVED IT). (1/6)

It was everything I wanted, so satisfying, and the thread of Crusades and faith conflicts and the stupid complicated ways humans find to hurt each other was really masterfully woven through. I learned so much; I had a basic idea of the Crusades but you filled everything in and made it come alive. And you got across so well that people across history are just people. (2/6) 

Maryam was my favourite, I would read anything with more of her in it as well. The Constantinople section and the way it ended just ripped my heart out. (PHIL.) I was so glad Hippolyta and Rebecca got out safe. But the end to such a lovely sunlit chapter of life was heartwrenching. (3/6) 

It means a lot to me, as someone trying to confront her own faith’s and her ancestors’awful actions in the past, to have someone present religious conflict the way you do. Part motivations like conquest and glory and riches, part motivated by faith, and very much something that I or anyone else could fall into just as easily as people in the past did. (4/6) 

I graduated three years ago with a minor in history and have done absolutely nothing with it - I was burned out for ages on even reading anything, and I haven’t read anything academically rigorous in so long. This felt like a perfect reintroduction to history, and it made me want to do research and read history again, for the first time in years. (5/6) 

I’m noting the resources you’ve recommended to some other folks about medieval queerness and the Crusades, but I was wondering if you also had any recommendations for reading about Julian of Norwich specifically, or queerness in female medieval religious spaces in general? Thank you so much, I’ve followed your blog for a long time and always love reading your posts. (6/6) 

Ahh, thanks so much. Once again, I must bow to someone’s superlative tumblr ninjitsu skills both in knowing the number of asks it will take ahead of time and preventing the blue hellsite from eating any of them.

I’ve had so many people say these absolutely lovely things to me about DVLA -- about the history, the religion, the journey, the story, the reactions they had to these themes, how they felt inspired by it -- and I really am truly humbled by it. I think it speaks to the way all of us felt some kind of ownership or reflection or empowerment in Joe and Nicky’s story and the way it unfolds both on screen in the TOG film and our own conceptions and reactions and engagement with it. It’s just one of the best ships I can think of in terms of that, and I’m worried that anything I say will end up sounding trite, but I really do mean that.

As a historian, I am obviously delighted to hear that it made you want to return to or re-engage with the subject in some way, as well as to use it to help think through the religious themes for yourself. Because as I said in my answer to how to deal with the history in a hypothetical Joe/Nicky prequel movie, we can’t just have the easy luxury of being like “oh all the crusaders were clearly religious zealots and we would never be like that and never do anything like that.” Because a) we already do that, and b) it prevents us from assessing ourselves and our own behaviour and our own troubling patterns and habits if we just arrogantly assume that all the people in the past were stupider and/or less enlightened than we were and clearly We Won’t Make Those Mistakes. So we have to see ourselves in them in some way, and to understand they still did those things, they still destroyed a lot of beautiful things in their world for ultimately no good reason at all. We’re doing the same thing, we justify it to ourselves in different ways, and the goals and the stakes are a lot larger in a globalized world, and anything that sets up medieval people (or really any people in the past, but the medieval era is the stick that gets used the most often) as so unlike us and so inferior to us is just genuinely dangerous. So yes. I’m sure you know my feelings on that topic.

Maryam, Rebecca, and Hippolyta have all gotten a lot of love, which I think is great, and it seems to be the consensus that chapter 4 ruined everyone’s lives. This is understandable, since I’ve mentioned the fact that despite the pain, I think it’s possibly my favourite, and I am glad that everyone had the totally normal emotions over the sack of Constantinople that I also had while writing it. Because yes! It is a tragedy the likes of which was still a Thing in the year 2004, the 800th anniversary, when the pope felt moved to apologize for it! The scale of what it destroyed and took away and the way it influenced history afterward (as Joe is thinking at the start of chapter 6) is just MASSIVE, and... yes.

As for reading recs (and again, it delights me that you want to dip your toe back into reading academic history), I don’t have anything about Julian of Norwich specifically (though there’s a LOT about her out there, especially right now, so I’m sure you can nose about and see what turns up). But as for queerness in female medieval religious spaces (with some bonus medieval queer ladies in general):

Sahar Amer, Crossing Borders: Love between Women in Medieval French and Arabic Literatures (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008)

Judith Bennett, ‘ “Lesbian-Like” and the Social History of Lesbianisms,’ Journal of the History of Sexuality, 9 (2000), 9–22.

Marie-Jo Bonnet, ‘Sappho: Or the Importance of Culture in the Language of Love: Tribade, Lesbienne, Homosexuelle’, in Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality, ed. by Anna Livia and Kira Hall (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 147–66.

Bernadette Brooten, Love Between Women: Early Christian Responses to Female Homoeroticism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996)

Mary Anne Campbell, ‘Redefining Holy Maidenhood: Virginity and Lesbianism in Late Medieval England’, Medieval Feminist Forum, 13 (1992) 14-15.

Carol Lansing, ‘Donna con donna? A 1295 Inquest into Female Sodomy’, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History, 3 (2005) 109-122.

Kathy Lavezzo, ‘Sobs and Sighs Between Women: The Homoerotics of Compassion in The Book of Margery Kempe.’, in Premodern Sexualities, ed. by Louise Fradenburg and Carla Freccero (New York: Routledge, 1996), pp. 175-198.

E. Ann Matter, ‘My Sister, My Spouse: Woman-Identified Women in Medieval Christianity’, in Weaving the Visions, ed. by Judith Plaskow and Carol P. Christ (San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1989), pp. 51–62.

Jacqueline Murray, ‘Twice Marginal and Twice Invisible: Lesbians in the Middle Ages’, in Handbook of Medieval Sexuality, ed. by Vern L. Bullough and James A. Brundage (New York: Garland, 1996), pp. 191–222.

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, Among Women: From the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002

Susan Schibanoff, ‘Hildegard of Bingen and Richardis of Stade: The Discourse of Desire’, in Same Sex: Love and Desire Among Women in the Middle Ages, ed. by Francesca Canadé Sautman and Pamela Sheingorn (New York: Palgrave, 2001), pp. 49-83.

Have fun!!

[madame-est-morte]

Off the top of my head, these women authors can, according to J.K. Rowling stans, go fuck themselves: Sappho, Anne Frank, Murasaki Shikibu, Margery Kempe, Madame de la Fayette, Edith Wharton, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Anne Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Emilia Pardo Bazán, Carmen Laforet, Ana María Matute, Almudena Grandes, Aphra Behn, Christine de Pizan, Hildegard von Bingen, Lillian Hellman, Virginia Woolf, Anna Akhmatova, Marina Tsvetaeva, Patricia Highsmith, Audre Lorde, Adrienne Rich, Marilyn French, Gloria Steinem, Martha Gellhorn, Kate Chopin, Radcyffle Hall, Toni Morrison, Maya Angelou, George Eliot, Agatha Christie, Louisa May Alcott, Sylvia Plath, Harper Lee, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Oriana Fallaci, Daphne du Maurier, Mary Oliver, Shirley Jackson, Ursula K. Le Guin, Ann Radcliffe, Clarice Lispector, Anne Sexton, Octavia Butler, Betty Friedan, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Marguerite Duras, Françoise Sagan, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Margaret Cavendish, Emma Orczy, Catherine Lucille Moore, Joyce Carol Oates.. Jesus, the buffonery of these people is endless.

Can’t believe Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice in the 2000s

And in 2015 Emily Brontë released literary clsssic Wuthering Heights

Thank God someone paved the way for them...

[meeedeee]

Marge, Doyle and Bodie - Ex's and Oh's

Fandoms: The Professionals (TV 1977)

Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings

Margery Harper

Raymond Doyle

William Bodie

Fanvid

songvid

Video

Raise a glass of something green to the ‘inimitable’ Marge: shrewd, passionate and nobody’s fool. This is an ode to her cheerful mercenary nous and Lorelei charm. ...More than a match for our Lads.

I do not own the show, characters or music. The music track is 'Ex's and Oh's' by Elle King.

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[mmpostingtournament-blog]

Round 2

August 31st - September 6th

Main Bracket

Alf (Bradley, Pandora Carson, Waylan) vs Tiny (Brent, Cameron, Ziya)

Beth (Aurelié, Adalaine, Dieter) vs Marri (Christine, Felicia, Iscariot)

Cliff (Ashley, Lane, Samuel) vs Krissu (Elizabeth, Liani, Kaylee)

Devin (Nikolas, Rita, Tas) vs Lee (Margery, Natalie, Romana)

Eryn (Houri, Jonathan, Thabisa) vs Lis (Caden, Harper, Jameson)

Hadley (Ceaser, Katriana, Svanna) vs Sara (Alexandria, Dominic, Raven)

Matt (Heather, Morgan, Travis) vs Mia (Arthur, Jasper, Joseph)

MJ (Alexis, Amity, Natasha) vs Tyler (Irvin Zaruhi, Olivia, Toros)

[skylightbooks]

Late last night we gathered all of the new books that we carry that contain lists of

radical/difficult/legendary/badass/bold/brave/bad

girls/women/ladies/leaders/rebels/princesses/goddesses/feminists/heroines 

and created a word cloud of all the names that occur in these books. Here it is in long form:

A'isha bint abi Bakr Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer Abigail Adams Ada Blackjack Ada Lovelace (appears 4 times) Adina De Zavala Aditi Aelfthryth Aethelflaed Agatha Christie Agnodice (appears 3 times) Agontime and the Dahomey Amazons Aine Aisholpan Nurgaiv Ala Alek Wek Alexandra Kollontai Alexis Smith Alfhild (appears 2 times) Alfonsina Strada Alia Muhammad Baker Alice Ball (appears 3 times) Alice Clement Alice Guy-Blache Alice Paul Alicia Alonso Alma Woodsey Thomas Althea Gibson Amal Clooney Amalia Eriksson Amanda Stenberg Amaterasu Amba/Sikhandi Ameenah Gurib-Fakim Amelia Earhart (appears 4 times) Amna Al Haddad Amy Poehler (appears 2 times) Amy Winehouse Ana Lezama de Urinza Ana Nzinga Anais Nin Andamana Andree Peel Angela Davis (appears 3 times) Angela Merkel (appears 2 times) Angela Morley Angela Zhang Angelina Jolie Anita Garibaldi (appears 3 times) Anita Roddick Ann Hamilton Ann Makosinski Anna Atkins Anna May Wong Anna Nicole Smith Anna of Saxony Anna Olga Albertina Brown Anna Politkovskaya Anna Wintour Anna-Marie McLemore Anne Bonny Anne Hutchinson Anne Lister Annette Kellerman (appears 3 times) Annie "Londonderry" Cohen Kopchovsky Annie Edson Taylor Annie Edson Taylor Annie Jump Cannon (appears 3 times) Annie Oakley (appears 2 times) Annie Smith Peck Aphra Behn Aphrodite Arawelo Aretha Franklin Artemis Artemisia Gentileschi (appears 4 times) Artemisis I of Caria Ashley Fiolek Astrid Lindgren Athena Aud the Deep-Minded Audre Lorde Audrey Hepburn Augusta Savage Aung San Suu Kyi (appears 2 times) Azucena Villaflor Babe Zaharias Barbara Bloom Barbara Hillary Barbara Walters Bast Bastardilla Beatrice Ayettey Beatrice Potter Webb Beatrice Vio Beatrix Potter Beatrix Potter Belle Boyd Belva Lockwood Benten Bessie Coleman (appears 2 times) Bessie Stringfield Bettie Page Betty Davis Betty Friedan Beyonce (appears 3 times) Billie Holiday Billie Jean King (appears 3 times) Birute Mary Galdikis Black Mambas Blakissa Chaibou Bonnie Parker Boudicca (appears 3 times) Brenda Chapman Brenda Milner Bridget Riley Brie Larson Brigid of Kildare Brigit Britney Spears Bronte Sisters Buffalo Calf Road Woman (appears 2 times) Buffy Sainte-Marie Calafia Caraboo Carly Rae Jepsen Carmen Amaya Carmen Miranda Carol Burnett Caroline of Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel Carrie Bradshaw Carrie Fisher (appears 2 times) Caterina Sforza Catherine Radziwill Catherine the Great (appears 3 times) Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Celia Cruz Chalchiuhtlicue Chang-o Charlotte E Ray Charlotte of Belgium Charlotte of Prussia Cher Cheryl Bridges Chien-Shiung Wu Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (appears 3 times) Chiyome Mochizuki Cholita Climbers Chrissy Teigen Christina   Christina of Sweden Christine de Pizan Christine Jorgensen (appears 2 times) Clara Rockmore Clara Schumann Clara Ward Claudia Ruggerini Clelia Duel Mosher Clemantine Wamariya Clementine Delait Cleopatra (appears 3 times) Coccinelle Coco Chanel (appears 2 times) Constance Markievicz Cora Coralina Coretta Scott King Corrie Ten Boom Courtney Love Coy Mathis Creiddylad Daenerys Targaryen Dahlia Adler Daisy Kadibill Dame Katerina Te Heikoko Mataira Delia Akeley Demeter Dhat al-Himma Dhonielle Clayton Diana Nyad Diana Ross Diana Vreeland (appears 2 times) Dixie Chicks Dolly Parton (appears 2 times) Dolores Huerta Dominique Dawes Dona Ana Lezama de Urinza and Dona Eustaquia de Sonza Dorothy Arzner Dorothy Dandridge Dorothy Thompson Dorothy Vaughan Dr. Eugenie Clark Dr. Jane Goodall (appears 3 times) Durga Edie Sedgwick Edith Garrud Edith Head Edith Wharton Edmonia Lewis Eleanor of Aquitaine Eleanor Roosevelt (appears 3 times) Elena Cornaro Piscopia Elena Piscopia Elinor Smith Elisabeth Bathory Elisabeth of Austria Elizabeth Bisland Elizabeth Blackwell Elizabeth Cady Stanton Elizabeth Hart Elizabeth I (appears 3 times) Elizabeth Murray Elizabeth Peyton Elizabeth Taylor Elizabeth Warren Elizabeth Zimmermann Elizsabeth Vigee-Lebrun Ella Baker Ella Fitzgerald Ella Hattan Elle Fanning Ellen Degeneres Elsa Schiaparelli Elvira de la Fuente Chaudoir Emily Warren Roebling Emma "Grandma" Gatewood Emma Goldman (appears 2 times) Emma Watson (appears 2 times) Emmeline Pankhurst (appears 3 times) Emmy Noether (appears 3 times) Empress Myeongseong Empress Theodora (appears 2 times) Empress Wu Zetian (appears 2 times) Empress Xi Ling Shi Enheduanna Eniac Programmers Eos Erin Bowman Estanatlehi Ethel Payne Eufrosina Cruz Eustaquia de Souza Eva Peron (appears 3 times) Fadumo Dayib Faith Bandler Fannie Farmer (appears 2 times) Fanny Blankers-Koen Fanny Bullock Workman Fanny Cochrane Smith Fanny Mendelssohn Fatima al-Fihri (appears 3 times) Fe Del Mundo Ferminia Sarras Fiona Banner Fiona Rae Florence Chadwick (appears 2 times) Florence Griffith-Joyner (appears 2 times) Florence Nightingale (appears 4 times) Frances E. W. Harper Frances Glessner Lee Frances Moore Lappe Franziska Freya Frida Kahlo (appears 7 times) Friederike Mandelbaum Funmilayo Ransome Kuti (appears 2 times) Gabriela Brimmer Gabriela Mistral Gae Aulenti Gaia George Sand Georgia "Tiny" Broadwick Georgia O'Keefe (appears 3 times) Gertrude Bell Gerty Cori Gilda Radner Girogina Reid Giusi Nicolini Gladys Bentley Gloria Steinem (appears 3 times) Gloria von Thurn Grace "Granuaile" O'Malley Grace Hopper Grace Jones Grace O'Malley (appears 3 times) Gracia Mendes Nasi Gracie Fields Grimke Sisters Guerrilla Girls Gurinder Chadha Gwen Ifill Gwendolyn Brooks (appears 2 times) Gypsy Rose Lee Hannah Arendt Harriet Beecher Stowe Harriet Tubman (appears 6 times) Hathor Hatshepsut (appears 7 times) Hazel Scott Hecate Hedy Lamarr (appears 5 times) Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt Hel Helen Gibson Helen Gurley Brown (appears 2 times) Helen Keller (appears 2 times) Hildegard von Bingen Hillary Rodham Clinton (appears 2 times) Hina Hortense Mancini Hortensia Hsi Wang Mu Huma Abedin Hung Liu Hypatia (appears 4 times) Iara Ida B. Wells (appears 3 times) Ida Lewis Imogen Cunningham Irena Sendler (appears 3 times) Irena Sendlerowa Irene Joliot-Curie Isabel Allende Isabella of France Isabella Stewart Gardner Isadora Duncan (appears 2 times) Isis Iva Toguri D'Aquino Ixchel J.K. Rowling (appears 3 times) Jackie Mitchell Jacqueline and Eileen Nearne Jacquotte Delahaye Jane Austen (appears 2 times) Jane Dieulafoy Jane Mecom Jang-geum Janis Joplin Jayaben Desai Jean Batten Jean Macnamara Jeanne Baret (appears 3 times) Jeanne De Belleville Jennifer Aniston Jennifer Steinkamp Jenny Lewis Jesselyn Radack Jessica Spotswood Jessica Watson Jezebel Jill Tarter Jind Kaur Jingu Joan Bamford Fletcher Joan Beauchamp Procter Joan Jett (appears 2 times) Joan Mitchell Joan of Arc (appears 3 times) Jodie Foster Johanna July Johanna Nordblad Josefina "Joey" Guerrero Josephina van Gorkum Josephine Baker (appears 7 times) Jovita Idar (appears 2 times) Juana Azurduy Judit Polgar Judy Blume Julia Child (appears 2 times) Julia de Burgos Julie "La Maupin" d'Abigny (appears 3 times) Julie Dash Juliette Gordon Low Junko Tabei (appears 4 times) Justa Grata Honoria Ka'ahumanu Kali Kalpana Chawla Karen Carson Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera Kat Von D Kate Bornstein Kate Sheppard Kate Warne Katherine Hepburn Katherine Johnson (appears 2 times) Kathrine Switzer Katia Krafft (appears 2 times) Katie Sandwina Kay Thompson Keiko Fukuda Keumalahayati Kharboucha Khawlah bint al-Azwar Khayzuran Khoudia Diop Khutulun (appears 5 times) Kim Kardashian King Christina of Sweden Kosem Sultan Kristen Stewart Kristin Wig Kuan Yin Kumander Liwayway Kurmanjan Dtaka Lady Godiva Lady Margaret Cavendish Laka Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi (appears 5 times) Lana Del Rey Las Mariposas Laskarina Bouboulina (appears 2 times) Laura Redden Searing Lauren Potter Laverne Cox (appears 2 times) Lee Miller Lella Lombardi Lena Dunham Leo Salonga Leymah Gbowee (appears 2 times) Libby Riddles Lieu Hanh Lil Kim Lili'uokalani Lilian Bland (appears 3 times) Lilith Lillian Boyer Lillian Leitzel Lillian Ngoyi Lillian Riggs Lindsay Lohan Liv Arensen and Ann Bancroft Lorde Lorena Ochoa Lorna Simpson Lorraine Hansberry Lotfia El Nadi Louisa Atkinson Louise Mack Lowri Morgan Lozen (appears 3 times) Lucille Ball Lucrezia Lucy Hicks Anderson Lucy Parsons Luisa Moreno Luo Dengping Lyda Conley Lynda Benglis Ma'at Mackenzi Lee Madam C.J. Walker (appears 3 times) Madame Saqui Madia Comaneci Madonna (appears 3 times) Madres de Plaza de Mayo Mae C. Jemison Mae Emmeline Wirth Mae Jemison (appears 3 times) Mae West Mahalia Jackson Mai Bhago Malala Yousafzai (appears 7 times) Malinche (appears 2 times) Mamie Phipps Clark Manal al-Sharif Marcelite Harris Margaret Margaret "Molly" Tobin Brown Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Cho Margaret Hamilton (appears 2 times) Margaret Hardenbroeck Philipse Margaret Sanger Margaret Thatcher (appears 2 times) Margery Kempe Margherita Hack Marguerite de la Rocque Maria Callas Maria Mitchell Maria Montessori (appears 2 times) Maria Reiche Maria Sibylla Merian Maria Tallchief Maria Vieira da Silva Mariah Carey Marian Anderson Marie Antoinette Marie Chauvet Marie Curie (appears 5 times) Marie Duval Marie Mancini Marie Marvingt Marie Tharp Marieke Nijkamp Marina Abramovic Mariya Oktyabrskaya (appears 2 times) Marjana Marlene Sanders Marta Marta Vieira da Silva Martha Gelhorn Martha Graham Mary Anning (appears 5 times) Mary Blair Mary Bowser (appears 3 times) Mary Edwards Walker (appears 2 times) Mary Eliza Mahoney Mary Fields (appears 2 times) Mary Heilmann Mary Jackson (appears 2 times) Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen Mary Kingsley Mary Kom Mary Lacy Mary Lillian Ellison Mary Pickford Mary Quant Mary Seacole (appears 3 times) Mary Shelley Mary Wollstonecraft (appears 2 times) Maryam Mirzakhani Mata Hari (appears 3 times) Matilda of Canossa Matilda of Tuscany Matilde Montoya Maud Stevens Wagner Maya Angelou (appears 4 times) Maya Gabeira Maya Lin (appears 2 times) Mazu Meg Medina Megan Shepherd Melba Liston Mercedes de Acosta Merritt Moore Meryl Streep Micaela Bastidas Michaela Deprince Michelle Fierro Michelle Obama (appears 3 times) Mildred Burke Miley Cyrus Millo Castro Zaldarriaga Mina Hubbard Minnie Spotted Wolf Mirabal Sisters (appear 2 times) Miriam Makeba (appears 3 times) Missy Elliot Misty Copeland Mochizuki Chiyome Moll Cutpurse Molly Kelly Molly Williams Moremi Ajasoro Murasaki Shikibu (appears 3 times) Nadia Murad Nadine Gordimer Nakano Takeko Nana Asma'u (appears 2 times) Nancy Rubins Nancy Wake (appears 2 times) Naomi Campbell Naziq al-Abid Neerja Bhanot Nefertiti Nell Gwyn Nellie Bly (appears 8 times) Nettie Stevens (appears 2 times) Nichelle Nichols Nicki Minaj Nicole Richie Nina Simone (appears 2 times) Njinga of Angola Njinga of Ndongo Noor Inayat Khan (appears 3 times) Nora Ephron (appears 3 times) Norma Shearer North West Nuwa Nwanyeruwa (appears 2 times) Nyai Loro Kidul Nzinga Nzinga Mbande Octavia E Butler Odetta Olga of Kiev (appears 2 times) Olivia Benson Olympe de Gouges Oprah Winfrey (appears 5 times) Osh-Tisch Oshun Oya Pancho Barnes Paris Hilton Parvati Patti Smith (appears 2 times) Pauline Bonaparte Pauline Leon Peggy Guggenheim (appears 2 times) Pele Petra "Pedro" Herrera Phillis Wheatley Phoolan Devi Phyllis Diller Phyllis Wheatley Pia Fries Pingyang Policarpa "La Pola" Salavarrieta Policarpa Salavarrieta (appears 2 times) Poly Styrene Poorna Malavath Pope Joan Portia De Rossi and Ellen Degeneres Princess Caraboo Princess Diana Princess Sophia Duleep Singh Psyche Pura Belpre Qiu Jin (appears 3 times) Queen Arawelo Queen Bessie Coleman Queen Lili'uokalani (appears 2 times) Queen Nanny of the Maroons (appears 4 times) Quintreman Sisters Rachel Carson (appears 4 times) Rachel Maddow Raden Ajeng Kartini Ran Rani Chennamma Rani Lakshmibai Rani of Jhansi Raven Wilkinson Rebecca Lee Crumpler Rhiannon Rigoberta Menchu Tum Rihanna Rita Levi Montalcini (appears 2 times) Robina Muqimyar Roni Horn Rosa Luxemburg Rosa Parks (appears 4 times) Rosalind Franklin Rosaly Lopes Rose Fortune Rowan Blanchard Roxolana Ruby Nell Bridges (appears 3 times) Rukmini Devi Arundale Rupaul Ruth Bader Ginsburg (appears 3 times) Ruth Harkness Ruth Westheimer Rywka Lipszyc Sadako Sasaki Sally Ride Samantha Christoforetti Sappho (appears 3 times) Sara Farizan Sara Seager Sarah Breedlove Sarah Charlesworth Sarah Winnemucca Saraswati Sarinya Srisakul Sarojini Naidu Sarvenaz Tash Sayyida al-Hurra (appears 2 times) Sekhmet Selda Bagcan Selena Seondeok of Silla (appears 2 times) Serafina Battaglia Serena Williams (appears 4 times) Shajar al-Durr Shamsia Hassani Sharon Ellis Sheryl Crow Sheryl Sandberg Shirely Chisolm (appears 2 times) Shirley Muldowney Shonda Rhimes (appears 2 times) Simone Biles (appears 2 times) Simone de Beauvoir Simone Veil Sister Corita Kent Sita Sky Brown Sofia Ionescu Sofia Perovskaya Sofka Dolgorouky Sojourner Truth (appears 5 times) Solange Sonia Sotomayor (appears 2 times) Sonita Alizadeh (appears 2 times) Sophia Dorothea Sophia Loren Sophie Blanchard Sophie Scholl (appears 3 times) Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz (appears 2 times) Sorghaghtani Beki Spider Woman Stacey Lee Stagecoach Mary Fields (appears 2 times) Steffi Graf Stephanie Kwolek Stephanie von Hohenlohe Stevie Nicks Subh Susa La Flesche Picotte Susan B. Anthony Susan La Flesche Picotte Sybil Ludington (appears 3 times) Sybilla Masters Sylvia Earle (appears 3 times) Tallulah Bankhead Tamara de Lempicka Tara Tarabai Shinde Tatterhood Taylor Swift Te Puea Herangi (appears 2 times) Temple Grandin (appears 3 times) Teresita Fernandez Mirabal Sisters Muses Night Witches Shaggs Stateless Thea Foss Therese Clerc Tin Hinan Tina Fey (appears 2 times) TLC Tomoe Gozen (appears 2 times) Tomyris (appears 2 times) Tonya Harding Tove Jansson (appears 2 times) Troop 6000 Trung Sisters Trung Trac and Trung Nhi (appear 2 times together) Tyche Tyler Moore Tyra Banks Ulayya bint al-Mahdi Umm Kulthum Ursula K. LeGuin Ursula Nordstrom Valentina Tereshkova (appears 5 times) Valerie Thomas Vanessa Beecroft Venus Williams (appears 2 times) Victoria Beckham Vija Celmins Viola Davis Viola Desmond Violeta Parra Virginia Apgar Virginia Hall Virginia Woolf (appears 3 times) Vita Sackville-West Vivian Maier Wallada bint al-Mustakfi (appears 2 times) Wang Zhenyi (appears 2 times) Wangari Maathai (appears 3 times) Washington State Suffragists Whina Cooper Willow Smith Wilma Mankiller Wilma Rudolph (appears 3 times) Winona Ryder Wislawa Szymborska Wu Mei Wu Zetian (appears 3 times) Xian Zhang Xochiquetzal Xtabay Yaa Asantewaa (appears 3 times) Yael Yani Tseng Yayoi Kusama Yemoja Yennenga Yeonmi Park Ynes Mexia Yoko Ono Yoshiko Kawashima Yuri Kochiyama Yusra Mardini Zabel Yesayan Zaha Hadid (appears 2 times) Zenobia Zoe Kravitz Zora Neale Hurston (appears 2 times)

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Children’s Literature Names

Master List - Sorted by Book

(will continue to add)

Sara Crewe (A Little Princess) Becky (A Little Princess) Ermengarde (A Little Princess) Lottie (A Little Princess) Lavinia (A Little Princess)

Olaf (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Violet Baudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Klaus Beaudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events) Sunny Beaudelaire (A Series of Unfortunate Events)

Meg Murry (A Wrinkle in Time) Charles Wallace Murry (A Wrinkle in Time) Calvin O’Keefe (A Wrinkle in Time) Sandy Murry (A Wrinkle in Time) Dennys Murry (A Wrinkle in Time)

Alice (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Amelia Bedelia (Amelia Bedelia)

Anne Shirley (Anne of Green Gables) Marilla Cuthbert (Anne of Green Gables) Matthew Cuthbert (Anne of Green Gables) Gilbert Blythe (Anne of Green Gables) Diana Barry (Anne of Green Gables) Jane Andrews (Anne of Green Gables) Ruby Gillis (Anne of Green Gables) Rachel Lynde (Anne of Green Gables)

Artemis Fowl (Artemis Fowl) Holly Short (Artemis Fowl) Julius Root (Artemis Fowl) Angeline Fowl (Artemis Fowl) Juliet Butler (Artemis Fowl)

Babar (Babar) Celeste (Babar) Arthur (Babar) Zephir (Babar) Cornelius (Babar) Pom (Babar) Flora (Babar) Alexander (Babar) Isabelle (Babar) Pompadour (Babar) Victor (Babar) Badou (Babar) Lulu (Babar)

India Opal “Opal“ Buloni (Because of Winn-Dixie) Winn-Dixie (Because of Winn-Dixie) Gloria Dump (Because of Winn-Dixie) Franny Block (Because of Winn-Dixie) Otis (Because of Winn-Dixie)

Betsey (Elizabeth) Warrington Ray (Betsey-Tacy) Tacy (Anastacia) (Betsey-Tacy) Tib (Thelma) Miller (Betsey-Tacy) Bob Ray (Betsey-Tacy) Jule Ray (Betsey-Tacy) Julia Ray (Betsey-Tacy) Margaret Ray (Betsey-Tacy) Joe Willard (Betsey-Tacy)

Willy Wonka (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Charlie Bucket (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Joe (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Augustus Gloop (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Violet Beauregarde (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Veruca Salt (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Mike Teavee (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Arthur Slugworth (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Josephine (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) Georgina (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) George (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Fern (Charlotte's Web) Avery (Charlotte's Web) Wilbur (Charlotte's Web) Charlotte (Charlotte's Web) Joy (Charlotte's Web) Aranea (Charlotte's Web) Nellie (Charlotte's Web) Tempelton (Charlotte’s Web) Homer Zuckerman (Charlotte's Web) Edith Zuckerman (Charlotte's Web) Lurvy (Charlotte's Web) Henry Fussy (Charlotte's Web)

Coraline Jones (Coraline) Wybie Lovat (Coraline)

George (Curious George)

Eloise (Eloise)

Cyril (Five Children and It) Anthea (Five Children and It) Robert (Five Children and It) Jane (Five Children and It) Hilary “the Lamb“ (Five Children and It)

Harold (Harold and the Purple Crayon)

Heidi (Heidi) Peter (Heidi) Clara (Heidi)

Meggie Folchart (Inkheart Trilogy) Mo (Mortimer) Folchart (Inkheart Trilogy) Capricorn (Inkheart Trilogy) Gwin (Inkheart Trilogy) Elinor Loredan (Inkheart Trilogy) Basta (Inkheart Trilogy) Darius (Inkheart Trilogy) Farid (Inkheart Trilogy) Fenoglio (Inkheart Trilogy) Mortola (Inkheart Trilogy) Resa (Teresa) Folchart (Inkheart Trilogy) Orpheus (Inkheart Trilogy) Roxane (Inkheart Trilogy) Brianna (Inkheart Trilogy) Cosimo (Inkheart Trilogy) Despina (Inkheart Trilogy) Doria (Inkheart Trilogy) Minerva (Inkheart Trilogy) Violante (Inkheart Trilogy) Rosanna (Inkheart Trilogy) Anselmo (Inkheart Trilogy) Fulvio (Inkheart Trilogy) Ivo (Inkheart Trilogy) Lazaro (Inkheart Trilogy) Pippo (Inkheart Trilogy) Paula (Inkheart Trilogy) Rico (Inkheart Trilogy)

James (James and the Giant Peach)

Laura Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) Mary Amelia Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) Carrie Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) Caroline Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) Charles Ingalls (Little House on the Prairie) Almanzo Wilder (Little House on the Prairie)

Cedric Errol (Little Lord Fauntleroy)

Jo (Josephine) March (Little Women) Meg March (Little Women) Beth March (Little Women) Amy March (Little Women) Laurie (Theodore) Laurence (Little Women)

Madeline Fogg (Madeline) Nicole (Madeline) Danielle (Madeline) Chloe (Madeline) Yvette (Madeline) Lulu (Madeline) Anne (Madeline) Monique (Madeline) Sylvie (Madeline) Nona (Madeline) Janine (Madeline) Ellie (Madeline) Pepito (Madeline) Genevieve (Madeline) Leopold (Madeline)

Darrell Rivers (f) (Malory Towers) Sally Hope (Malory Towers) Alicia Jones (Malory Towers) Betty (Malory Towers) Mary-Lou (Malory Towers) Daphne (Malory Towers) Gwendoline “Gwen“ (Malory Towers)

Mary Poppins (Mary Poppins) Jane Banks (Mary Poppins) Michael Banks (Mary Poppins) Barbara Banks (Mary Poppins) John Banks (Mary Poppins) Winifred Banks (Mary Poppins) George Banks (Mary Poppins) Bert (Mary Poppins)

Matilda Wormwood (Matilda) Lavender (Matilda) Jenny (Jennifer) Honey (Matilda) Agatha Trunchball (Matilda) Zinnia Wormwood (Matilda) Bruce Bogtrotter (Matilda)

Matilda (Nurse Matilda)

Oliver Twist (Oliver Twist) Nancy (Oliver Twist) Rose Maylie (Oliver Twist)

Peter Pan (Peter and Wendy) Wendy Moira Angela Darling (Peter and Wendy) John Darling (Peter and Wendy) Michael Darling (Peter and Wendy) Mary Darling (Peter and Wendy) Tiger Lily (Peter and Wendy)

Pollyanna Whittier (Pollyanna) Polly (Pollyanna) Nancy (Pollyanna)

Ramona Geraldine Quimby (Ramona) Beezus (Beatrice) Ann Quimby (Ramona) Roberta Day Quimby (Ramona) Bob (Robert) Quimby (Ramona) Dorothy Quimby (Ramona) Beatrice Day-Kemp (Ramona) Howie Kemp (Ramona) Willa Jean Kemp (Ramona) Hobart Kemp (Ramona) Henry Huggins (Ramona) Ribsy (Ramona) Daisy Kidd (Ramona) Jeremy Kidd (Ramona) Danny (Ramona) Susan Kushner (Ramona) Davy (Ramona)

Rebecca Rowena Randall (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Miranda Sawyer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Jane Sawyer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Jeremiah Cobb (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Sarah Cobb (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Emma Jane Perkins (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm) Adam Ladd (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)

Patricia “Pat“ O’Sullivan (St. Clare’s) Isabel O’Sullivan (St. Clare’s) Alison O’Sullivan (St. Clare’s) Hilary Wentworth (St. Clare’s) Carlotta Brown (St. Clare’s) Janet Robins (St. Clare’s) Doris Elward (St. Clare’s) Kitty Flaherty (St. Clare’s) Angela Favorleigh (St. Clare’s) Alma Pudden (St. Clare’s) Elsie “Catty“ Fanshawe (St. Clare’s) Gladys(St. Clare’s) Mirabel (St. Clare’s) Anne-Marie (St. Clare’s) Claudine (St. Clare’s) Antoinette (St. Clare’s) Roberta “Bobby“ Ellis (St. Clare’s) Winifred James (St. Clare’s) Tessie (St. Clare’s) Margery Fenworthy (St. Clare’s) Lucy Oriell (St. Clare’s) Erica (St. Clare’s) Priscilla Parsons (St. Clare’s) Joan Terry (St. Clare’s)

John Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Susan Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Titty Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Roger Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Bridget “Vicky“ Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Nancy (Ruth) Blackett (Swallows and Amazons) Peggy (Margaret) Blackett (Swallows and Amazons) Dorothea Callum (Swallows and Amazons) Dick Callum (Swallows and Amazons) Tom Dudgeon (Swallows and Amazons) Bess Farland (Swallows and Amazons) Nell Farland (Swallows and Amazons) Joe (Swallows and Amazons) Bill (Swallows and Amazons) Pete (Swallows and Amazons) Don (Swallows and Amazons) Daisy (Swallows and Amazons) Dum (Swallows and Amazons) Dee (Swallows and Amazons) James Turner (Swallows and Amazons) Molly (Mary) Blackett (Swallows and Amazons) Mary Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Ted Walker (Swallows and Amazons) Jim Brading (Swallows and Amazons) Timothy Stedding (Swallows and Amazons) Jim Woodall (Swallows and Amazons) Billy (Swallows and Amazons) Silas (Swallows and Amazons) Mary Swainson (Swallows and Amazons) Jacky Warriner (Swallows and Amazons) Robin Tyson (Swallows and Amazons)

Tom Sawyer (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Polly (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Huckleberry Finn (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Becky Thatcher (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Joe Harper (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Sid (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer) Mary (The Adventures of Tom Sawyer)

Sophie (The BFG)

Henry James Cordyce/Alden (The Boxcar Children) Jessie (Jessica) Cordyce/Alden (The Boxcar Children) Violet Cordyce/Alden (The Boxcar Children) Benjamin Cordyce/Alden (The Boxcar Children) James Henry Cordyce/Alden (The Boxcar Children) Soo Lee (The Boxcar Children) Mike (The Boxcar Children) Joe (The Boxcar Children) Alice (The Boxcar Children) Jane (The Boxcar Children) Andy (The Boxcar Children) John Carter (The Boxcar Children)

Edward Beverly (The Children of the New Forest) Humphrey Beverly (The Children of the New Forest) Alice Beverly (The Children of the New Forest) Edith Beverly (The Children of the New Forest) Jacob (The Children of the New Forest) Pablo (The Children of the New Forest) Patience (The Children of the New Forest)

Aslan (The Chronicles of Narnia) Jadis (The Chronicles of Narnia) Peter Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia, LWW) Susan Penvensie (The Chronicles of Narnia, LWW) Edmund Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia, LWW) Lucy Pevensie (The Chronicles of Narnia, LWW) Tumnus (The Chronicles of Narnia, LWW) Caspian (The Chronicles of Narnia, PC) Eustace Scrubb (The Chronicles of Narnia, VDT) Jill Pole (The Chronicles of Narnia, SC) Rillian (The Chronicles of Narnia, SC) Shasta / Cor (The Chronicles of Narnia, HaHB) Bree (The Chronicles of Narnia, HaHB) Aravis (The Chronicles of Narnia, HaHB) Tirian (The Chronicles of Narnia, LB) Digory Kirke (The Chronicles of Narnia, MN) Polly Plummer (The Chronicles of Narnia, MN)

Jonas (The Giver) Lily (The Giver) Gabriel (The Giver) Asher (The Giver) Fiona (The Giver) Larissa (The Giver)

Julian (The Famous Fave) Dick (The Famous Fave) Anne (The Famous Fave) Georgina “George“ (The Famous Fave) Timmy (The Famous Fave)

Jo (m) / Joe (The Faraway Tree) Bessie / Beth (The Faraway Tree) Fanny / Frannie (The Faraway Tree) Dick / Rick (The Faraway Tree)

Hugo Cabret (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) Isabelle (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) Georges Méliès (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) Jeanne (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) Etienne (The Invention of Hugo Cabret) Rene Tabard (The Invention of Hugo Cabret)

Mowgli (The Jungle Book)

Jack Smith (The Magic Tree House) Annie Smith (The Magic Tree House) Morgan Le Fay (The Magic Tree House) Merlin (The Magic Tree House) Kathleen (The Magic Tree House) Teddy (The Magic Tree House)

Clara (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King) Marie (The Nutcracker and the Mouse King)

Rosalind Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Skye Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Jane Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Batty (Elizabeth) Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Jeffrey Tifton (The Penderwicks) Martin Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Elizabeth Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Claire Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Iantha Aaronson Penderwick (The Penderwicks) Brenda Tifton (The Penderwicks) Alec McGrath (The Penderwicks) Dexter Dupree (The Penderwicks) Cagney (The Penderwicks) Harry (The Penderwicks) Turron Asabere (The Penderwicks) Anna (The Penderwicks) Tommy Geiger (The Penderwicks)

Roberta Waterbury (The Railway Children) Peter Waterbury (The Railway Children) Phyllis Waterbury (The Railway Children)

Mary Lennox (The Secret Garden) Colin Craven (The Secret Garden) Dickon Sowerby (The Secret Garden) Martha Sowerby (The Secret Garden) Archibald Craven (The Secret Garden)

Ferdinand (The Story of Ferdinand)

Fritz Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) Ernest Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) Jack Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) Francis Robinson (The Swiss Family Robinson) Emily Montrose (The Swiss Family Robinson)

Peter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) Josephine (The Tale of Peter Rabbit) Benjamin (The Tale of Peter Rabbit)

Victor Getz (The Thief Lord) Esther Hartlieb (The Thief Lord) Prosper (The Thief Lord) Bo (Bonifazius) (The Thief Lord) Wespe (Caterina) Grimani (The Thief Lord) Riccio (The Thief Lord) Mosca (The Thief Lord) Scipio Massimo / Fortunato (The Thief Lord) Ernesto “Barbarossa“ (The Thief Lord) Renzo (The Thief Lord) Massimo (The Thief Lord) Ida Spavento (The Thief Lord)

Dorothy Gale (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Henry (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Em (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Boq (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz) Glinda (The Wonderful Wizard of Oz)

Jim Hawkins (Treasure Island)

Max (Where the Wild Things Are)

Winnie (Winnie-the-Pooh) Christopher Robin (Winnie-the-Pooh)