Anna · @justanna
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Gonna be rolling up a new Anna - a Kul Tiran rogue.

Need opinions!

How do folks feel about these two names:

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Queer Sci Fi · @queerscifi
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Readers: what are your fave spec fic character name(s) and why? Authors, how do you choose your character names?

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@Tony_Meredith Just stumbled across this article by Ronald Dunning on a Burgh-Darcy marriage, back in 1329: janeausteninvermont.blog/2013/

Elizabeth probably attended the first wedding of her husband's sister Joan de at in 1312, but left Ireland in 1316 so would not have been at the second.

I think the allude to in 's day, but a lot of info was available to her: more at historians.social/@kawulf/1096

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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My first post here was 10 days ago, & the very first reply sent me down a fascinating
🕳️ 🐇 to a in which push for a fairer society with a & expanded , & our most beloved novelist skewers their opponents. Relevant holiday reading?

Here's the conversation, long 🧵 - what an intro to !
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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@Tony_Meredith Sheryl Craig & Janine Barchas have documented the political context & other convincingly, but although the characters of & the fictitious are discussed, & other names make political references clear, I have not seen the name discussed explicitly.
Modern readers may not realise that these are variant spellings? but there were Irish & peers in Jane’s time, both using variants of the original Burgh arms.

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@Tony_Meredith I also found 'The Comedy of Social Distinctions in Pride and Prejudice' by John McAleer which explains that Jane Austen's great-grandmother was a Brydges & descended from Lionel Duke of Clarence - so as it happens was a direct descendant of Elizabeth de Burgh . However the evidence seems compelling that Jane's were directly related to political issues of her day. She started writing in Oct1796, just as Pitt proposed reforming the .

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Claire Barnes · @ClaireFromClare
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@Tony_Meredith Donald Greene noted that used old English family names & also alluded to living characters. He explains that Sir thought his name had evolved from Burgh, that he was expanding 'Collins's Peerage' (9 vols in his 1812 edition), & that his pretensions irritated Jane. Independent readers might not connect the name Bourgh with Brydges, but the man himself would. So would the Austen family, given some Brydges ancestry. 🧵

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