Thread: New Leaf November 2019 Discussion • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontė
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Old 11-18-2019, 09:03 PM   #47
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Issybird, what about the G names too? I wonder if her assumed mother’s name of Graham shows the freedom of a future with Gilbert but also binds her to the past with Arthur at Grassdale!
LOL! I also wondered about the name of "Helen," if in the Brontė juvenalia it was always applied to a saintly character. I kept thinking of the saintly Helen Burns in Jane Eyre. It is obvious that Anne didn't have a lot of originality when it came to names!
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