From: Jeanne Fugina (missmud@earthlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 07:26:34 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 > > > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://im.yahoo.com/ > > >