Re: Recommend names that give you the following feel...
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A good witch who lives in a small cottage with a large medicinal garden
- Wilhelmina, Winnifred
A hardworking daughter of a recently impoverished noble family, who helps care for their crumbling castle and older servants
- Flora, Viola, Philippa, Eleanor
A young girl being raised by her grandmother on a temperate island, learning how to knit sweaters to sell for fishermen in the village
- Marie-Cecile, Mary-Catherine, Alice, Cecilia
A middle-aged Victorian lady who cultivates rare hothouse flowers and lives alone
- Judith, Florence, Elizabeth, Helena
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names that make you think of stained glass, willow china, old velvet pillows, shelves full of herbs, working by candlelight
- Ivy, Rosalind, Rosamund, Estella, Beatrice, Berenice
- Basil, William, Amadeus, Albert, Barnabas
“Fairy tales are more than true; not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
― Neil Gaiman
- Wilhelmina, Winnifred
A hardworking daughter of a recently impoverished noble family, who helps care for their crumbling castle and older servants
- Flora, Viola, Philippa, Eleanor
A young girl being raised by her grandmother on a temperate island, learning how to knit sweaters to sell for fishermen in the village
- Marie-Cecile, Mary-Catherine, Alice, Cecilia
A middle-aged Victorian lady who cultivates rare hothouse flowers and lives alone
- Judith, Florence, Elizabeth, Helena
~
names that make you think of stained glass, willow china, old velvet pillows, shelves full of herbs, working by candlelight
- Ivy, Rosalind, Rosamund, Estella, Beatrice, Berenice
- Basil, William, Amadeus, Albert, Barnabas
― Neil Gaiman