WHAT’S IN A NAME?
Dora is ceasing to be used as a Christian name for English girls. Per haps it is true that Dora has not been entirely happy as a name. For some reason or other the early Victorians linked it with tragedy Dora Spcnlow was not one of the happiest of Dickens’ women, and seven years before the publication of “David Copperfield” Tennyson had produced that, not very cheerful idyll, the. last line of which is “But Dora lived unmarried till her death.” At the same time it is somewhat rash to forecast the fate of names. It was asserted quite confidently in the earlv years of the war that no English boy would again be saddled with William for a name, but
it may he guessed that the registers would show that this mood was a passing one. People inay not select ID;.a as a name for a child if there is :io family association with it, but the chances tint that 20 years hence quite a number of Doras will be found in the lists of engagements and the marriage register.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)
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185WHAT’S IN A NAME? Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 76, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 13 (Supplement)
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