Thursday, January 10, 2013

Pride and Prejudice: The Book's Characters

I bought the nook book called "25 Favorite Novels". It is a 6000+ page compilation of classic novels written  from everyone like Jane Austen to Lucy Maude Montgomery and Emily Brontë. I am on the first book: Pride & Prejudice [by Jane Austen]. I have watched the movie version of the book and it's one of my favorite movies. I am going to see if the book is as good as the movie! So the book is great!! This post is going to be about the character's names from the book.

Elizabeth
Origin: Hebrew
Meaning: "pledged to God"
Elizabeth's Popularity in 2011: #11

Jane
Origin: English
Meaning: "God's gracious gift"
Jane's Popularity in 2011: #368

MaryOrigin: Hebrew
Meaning: "bitter"
Mary's Popularity in 2011: #112

Lydia 
Origin: Greek
Meaning: "woman from Lydia"
Lydia's Popularity in 2011: #96

Catherine "Kitty"
Origin: Greek
Meaning: "pure"
Catherine's Popularity in 2011: #161
The nickname Kitty is Greek, a diminutive of Katherine, and it also means "pure".

Caroline
Origin: French, feminine variation of Carolus
Meaning: "free man"
Caroline's Popularity in 2011: #87


Georgiana
Origin: English, feminine variation of George
Meaning: "farmer"
Georgiana's Popularity in 2011: n/a

Charlotte
Origin: French, feminine variation of Charles
Meaning: "free man"
Charlotte's Popularity in 2011: #27

Charles
Origin: French from German
Meaning: "free man"
Charles' Popularity in 2011: #62

George
Origin: Greek
Meaning: "farmer"
George's Popularity in 2011: #165

William
Origin: English from German
Meaning: "resolute protection"
William's Popularity in 2011: #3

Fitzwilliam
Origin: English
Meaning: "son of William"
Fitzwilliam's Popularity in 2011: n/a

If you are interesting on buying this book for nook, you can go HERE.

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