FASHIONS IN NAMES
Tastes in women's names change. Doubtless it is in revulsion against her own name, Gladys, that Lady Pearson has decided to call her girl baby Sally. In late Victorian and Edwardian days Sally would have been considered an impossible name for a baby of the smallest social pretensions. Instead, every "nice" female child was equipped with some elegant name. As time went on the Dorises and Daphnes, Phyllises, Violets, Mauds, Winifreds, Beatrixes, and Beryls became too "common," and early in the era of George V there was a reaction in favour of Marys and Bettys, Annes and James, Sallys and Kittys, Susans and Peggys. The reaction is at its height at the moment.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 26 March 1930, Page 2
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