Those of us who specialize in fuddy-duddy Victorian fiction are frequently urged to get with the program, go modern, become relevant, etc., etc., etc. What better way than to jump on one of the more recent pop culture bandwagons? I speak, of course, of couple names--two character names squashed together to indicate that they're an item. (Or that the fans want them to be an item.) E.g., "CarJax." Or "Huddy." I don't see why Victorianists can't do something similar.
- Pip + Estella, Great Expectations = Pestella
- Pip + Herbert Pocket, Great Expectations = Picket
- Dorothea Brooke + Will Ladislaw, Middlemarch = Dill
- Jane Eyre + Mr. Rochester, Jane Eyre = Jester
- Gilbert Markham + Helen Graham, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall: Markaham
- Walter Hartright + Laura Fairlie, The Woman in White: FairHart
- The Lady of Shalott + Sir Lancelot, "The Lady of Shalott": Lancelott
- The Governess + the Master of Bly, The Turn of the Screw: The Governaster
LucyLu?
ThornStable?
HeathRine?
Posted by: CJColucci | October 28, 2009 at 04:05 PM
Lancelott
Not Lanshallot?
Hmmm. Riddoone? Pipestelle? Bathsoak?
Posted by: Ray Girvan | October 28, 2009 at 06:20 PM
OakBath?
GabarDene?
Please, make me stop!
Posted by: CJColucci | October 30, 2009 at 01:15 PM
Sorry, that should be GabErdene.
Posted by: CJColucci | October 30, 2009 at 01:16 PM
EBellezer?
Posted by: Richard Heft | October 30, 2009 at 03:07 PM
I'm more a Laura Fairlie + Marian Halcombe kind of girl myself... so let there be LaRian. (FairCombe? Hallie?)
Posted by: FirecrackerX | December 19, 2009 at 08:16 AM