Louise Fowler

@jenwriter17

And for your question which I forgot to ask:

Who in their family is your character closest to?

@jenwriter17

Thanks 😀 (and don’t feel pressured to send us any lasagne or anything like that. We’ve got quite enough as it is 😛 )

What new hobby would your character be most likely to try?

Hmm… Yilla would probably take up…candle making or basket weaving or something of that sort. High-Praise would take up knitting or embroidery and…[Read more]

@valtmy

It’s been a while since we’ve talked! Hopefully you can find some time to drop in 😀

@jenwriter17

There’s a massive drought in Aus at the moment, which is why we were discussing it 😛

He’s had a lot of tests, but they’ve all come back clear. Which is good…except there’s definitely something wrong and none of the doctor’s can work out what it is. So yeah…we’re thinking he’s definitely going to be in hospital for at least…[Read more]

@jenwriter17

Well, my family and I have been debating about the greed of western civilization.

I’m probably going to do some worldbuilding and blog posts in a minute though.

And things are okay at the moment. My mum’s home today so that’s really good.

@jenwriter17

Hey! I’m here for a bit.

@seekjustice I’m not going to be on anymore tonight.  So I’ll talk to you later.  Bye!

@rochellaine

I’ve read some of Ethel Turner many years ago, but I haven’t heard of any of the other ones.

And I saw that article but I haven’t read it yet, I kinda just skimmed over it.

I’ll talk to you later then!

@seekjustice Oh, that’s so cool!

It is very similar to the American lists, but not identical by any means. 😉

I’ve got to disappear for a bit, but I’ll be back in perhaps 45 min or an hour, if you’re still here.

@seekjustice I see. 🙂

I’ve found a few Australian authors from the time period.  Some of their books are on Gutenberg, so you could look them up if you’re interested.  I have no idea whether they’re good or not, but I strongly hold that the absolute best way to research for a historical time period is to read stuff actually written in the time p…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I found Victoria’s births deaths and marriages site which has a really good list of popular names, it only goes back to 1929, but its quite interesting to look at. Of course, its only for one state, but I imagine the rest of Australia was pretty similar.

Here’s the…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I believe its Greek 🙂

I can’t find any specifically Australian sites either, at least for back then. I can only find Social Security which seems to be global (or British empire anyway). I will let you know if I find any. (Though looking through old newspapers in the birth/deaths/marriages sections might give a good idea.

@seekjustice Cora sounds Irish to me.  Is it?

Let me know if you do find any Australian lists, won’t you?  I couldn’t find any, and I’d be interested in seeing what differences there were.  I guess you’d have access to some different sites in Australia?

@rochellaine

I quite like Lilian, Cora and Elise, so I’ll think over those three for a bit and decide between them.

As for cultural differences, I’m not really sure about America during that time period, but Australia has traditionally kept to the trends of England and Ireland. Irish names were very popular but I doubt there would have been many…[Read more]

@seekjustice Okay, here’s a list:

• Mona
• Lillian/Lilian
• Nan (this is a nickname for Anne)
• Elsie/Elise
• Marie (This pronunciation was made fun of so much that there’s even a song about it.  😛 “Mary’s a Grand Old Name” by George M. Cohan.  It was an extremely popular name, but – at least in America – because it was the French p…

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@rochellaine

She would probably be upper middle class. Comfortable and a little uppity, so her parents would probably be the sort of people who would give their daughter a name slightly above their class to sound more posh than they really are.

Suggest whatever you like 🙂 I’m all out of ideas!

Only two, at least while I’m waiting for the rest…[Read more]

@seekjustice Cool! 🙂

I have a couple of comments/questions:

Your book is set in Australia, right?  What social class is your character in?

In most of the books I’ve read that were written in that time period, the more “unique/fancy” names like Lilian, Ethel, and Evelyn were often made fun of by the people who preferred more “sensible” names…[Read more]

@rochellaine

I need some help getting a female name for one of my novels. Its a WWI novel so she was born in the late 1890s. I’m looking for a name that’s not, like, Mary or Jane or Philomena. Do you have any ideas? I want it to be sort of unique but not out of place for the historical period.

Done for now. . .

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