20 lost literary girls' names

[Dave Monroe]

Nameberry: 20 lost literary girls' names
nameberry.com


Within the pages of books from all periods of literary history - from
classical, metaphysical and Elizabethan poetry and plays to the
Romantics and the Realists, right up to modern novels - can be found
gems of names that have been lost to time, either because they've been
identified with a singular character or simply because they've gone
out of style. Here are 20 such girls' names.

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PRAIRIE - a modern Valley Girl (she works at the Bodhi Dharma Pizza
Temple) in Thomas Pynchon's "Vineland."

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