4. What’s In a Name?

In this week’s mini episode, Amy and Kim unpack “what’s in a name?” -- a literary name, that is -- as they discuss what makes for a memorable character name and share their favorite names from literature. Amy also shares the story of her short-lived pandemic hobby (can you guess what it is?). Plus, Amy and Kim will announce the next author and book they’ll feature on Lost Ladies of Lit.

Discussed in this episode: 

Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. Delafield

The Twisted Lit novels by Kim Askew and Amy Helmes

Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens 

Hard Times by Charles Dickens

2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke

Raymond Chandler's Phillip Marlowe Series 4 Books Set (The Big Sleep, The Lady in the Lake, The High Window, The Long Good-Bye)

Christopher Marlowe

Dulwich College

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Thorn Birds miniseries

The Scarlet Pimpernel by Baroness Orczy

Tristram Shandy by Laurence Sterne

Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

Leatherstocking Tales by James Fenimore Cooper

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Horatio Hornblower by C.S. Forester

Ioan Gruffudd

To the Ends of the Earth by William Golding

To the Ends of the Earth miniseries

The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart