Literary sib sets, as in Amy, Beth, Meg and Jo

• Published in: McClatchy - Tribune News Service
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• Language: English
• Published: Washington Tribune Content Agency LLC 11.05.2009
• Subjects: Names

SISTERS Alcott, "Little Women": JOSEPHINE, MEG, BETH, AMY Austen, "Pride and Prejudice": JANE, ELIZABETH, MARY, CATHARINE (KITTY), LYDIA Austen, "Sense and Sensibility": ELINOR, MARIANNE, MARGARET Chekhov, "Three Sisters": OLGA, MASHA, IRINA Dickens, "Martin Chuzzlewit": CHARITY, MERCY (known as Cherry and Merry) Eliot, "Middlemarch": CELIA, DOROTHEA Lawrence, "The Rainbow," "Women in Love": URSULA, GUDRUN Mitchell, "Gone With the Wind": SCARLETT (Katie Scarlett), SUELLEN (Susan Elinor), CARREEN (Caroline Irene) Williams, "A Streetcar Named Desire": STELLA, BLANCHE Woody Allen, "Hannah & Her Sisters": LEE, HANNAH, HOLLY BROTHERS Cheever, "The Wapshot Chronicle": MOSES, COVERLY Dostoyevsky, "The Brothers Karamazov": DMITRI (MITYA), IVAN, ALYOSHA Dumas, "The Corsican Brothers": LUCIEN, LOUIS Faulkner, several novels: BILBO, VARDAMAN, CLARENCE, ST. ELMO, MONTGOMERY WARD, WALLSTREET PANIC, ADMIRAL DEWEY, VIRGIL, BYRON Miller, "Death of a Salesman": BIFF, HAPPY O'Neill, "Desire Under the Elms": EBEN, PETER, SIMEON Shepard, "Fool for Love": LEE, AUSTIN Steinbeck, "East of Eden": CALEB, ARON MIXTURES Barrie, "Peter Pan": WENDY (invented), MICHAEL, JOHN Dickens, "A Christmas Carol": MARTHA, BELINDA, PETER, TIM Faulkner, "As I Lay Dying": CASH, DARL, JEWEL, DEWEY DELL, VARDAMAN, BENJAMIN, JASON, QUENTIN, CANDACE (Caddy) Galsworthy, "The Forsyte Saga": JOLYON (Jolly), IRENESOAMES, WINIFRED Hardy, "The Return of the Native": CLEMENT (Clym), THOMASIN Hawthorne, "The House of the Seven Gables": CLIFFORD, HEPZIBAH James, "The Turn of the Screw": FLORA, MILES Lee, "To Kill a Mockingbird": JEREMY (Jem), JEAN LOUISE (Scout) Salinger, "Franny and Zooey" and short stories: FRANNY (Frances), ZOOEY (Zachary), BUDDY (Webb), SEYMOUR, BEATRICE (Boo-Boo), WALTER, WAKER Salinger, "Catcher in the Rye": HOLDEN, PHOEBE, VIOLA, (Allie Vincent siblings mentioned in other stories) Shaw, "Man and Superman": OCTAVIUS, VIOLET Sidney, "Five Little Peppers": BEN (Ebenezer), POLLY (Mary), JOEL, DAVID, PHRONSIE (Sophronia) Steinbeck, "The Grapes of Wrath": TOM, ROSE OF SHARON, AL, NOAH, RUTHIE, WINFIELD Waugh, "Brideshead Revisited": SEBASTIAN, JULIA, CORDELIA Nameberry (http://nameberry.com) is a baby-naming site produced by Pamela Redmond Satran and Linda Rosenkrantz, co-authors of nine bestselling baby name guides, including "The Baby Name Bible" and "Cool Names for Babies."(c) 2009, Nameberry.comDistributed by McClatchy-Tribune Information Services.