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Re: Recommend names that give you the following feel...
I am doing this without looking at the other responses first. It will be interesting to see if someone had the same associations :)A good witch who lives in a small cottage with a large medicinal gardenGlenda, Drusilla, Eudora, Hermina, Amelia.A hardworking daughter of a recently impoverished noble family, who helps care for their crumbling castle and older servantsEleonora, Nora, Adelaida, Estera, Mary Rose, Dora, Camille.A young girl being raised by her grandmother on a temperate island, learning how to knit sweaters to sell for fishermen in the villageMarina, Mari, Viviana.A middle-aged Victorian lady who cultivates rare hothouse flowers and lives aloneEmma, Bertha, Mildred, Marguerite.names that make you think of stained glass, willow china, old velvet pillows, shelves full of herbs, working by candlelightstained glass: Mary, Maria, Menodora.
willow china: nothing comes up
old velvet pillows: Jasmine, Maryam, Lila, Miriam, Layla.
shelves full of herbs: Chloe, Ivy, Margery.
working by candlelight: Belle
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I thought of variations of Eleanor and Adelaide for the noble daughter too -- I think these might come up for a lot of people! Cool. (Both are such firmly noble, hardworking names to me.)
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