From: Jeanne Fugina (missmud@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 07:12:52 PDT
Scott,
Thanks much for your help and contribution to my project. Aren't
Dicken's names the best? However, we can be assured that any boy that we
know is VERY glad that his parents never pinned the name of Melchisidech on
him. Thanks, again. Jeanne
----- Original Message -----
From: Scott Alt <sealt69@YAHOO.COM>
To: <BOZ@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU>
Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 4:13 PM
Subject: A gallery of good names
> Dickens's novels in fact provide a gallery of good
> names:
>
> Alfred Jingle (_Pickwick Papers_)
> Mr. Bumble (_Oliver Twist_)
> Wackford Squeers (_Nicholas Nickleby_)
> Samuel Brass (_The Old Curiosity Shop_)
> Sim Tappertit (_Barnaby Rudge_)
> Zephaniah Scadder (_Martin Chuzzlewit_)
> Rev. Melchisidech Howler (_Dombey and Son_)
> Mr. Creakle (_David Copperfield_)
> "Fascination Fledgby" (_Bleak House_)
> Mr. M'Choakumchild (_Hard Times_)
> Mrs. F's Aunt (_Little Dorrit_)
> The Vengeance (_A Tale of Two Cities_)
> Uncle Pumblechook (_Great Expectations_)
> Mr. Podsnap (_Our Mutual Friend_)
>
>
>
> --- Darby Higgs <darby.higgs@ARTS.MONASH.EDU.AU>
> wrote:
> > What about Dick Swiveller in Old Curiosity Shop,
> > Murdstone in David Copperfield
> >
> > > Jeanne Fugina wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > I am giving a program regarding names and
> > naming, "What's In A
> > > Name?" (Thank you William Shakespeare.) However,
> > I have always felt
> > > that some of the most clever, interesting, unusual
> > and often telling
> > > names were devised by Charles Dickens. Since I
> > have a short memory
> > > and a short amount of time to finish this project,
> > could you all help
> > > me gather a list of Dicken's most memorable names
> > from his vast
> > > literary works? Thanks, Jeanne
> >
> > --
> > Darby Higgs
> > Australian APEC Study Centre
> > Tel 61 3 9903 8021
> > http://www.apec.org.au
>
>
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