[ANSTHRLD] Legal name and period name

Lisa Theriot lisatheriot at ravenboymusic.com
Tue Sep 20 15:15:59 PDT 2011


It seems sufficiently different from her legal name to be acceptable,
but that does not mean that it is an acceptable name in its own right.
She may need to use the mundane name allowance to have <Pamela> as I
don't believe we have any evidence of its use for a real person in
period (Withycombe says "apparently invented by Sir Philip Sidney as the
name of a character in his _Arcadia_ (1590)" but also says that the name
did not become popular until the appearance of the novel _Pamela_ in
1740).

<da'minguere> does not look correct as much of anything.  If she wants
an Italian locative (e.g. da Vinci) it does not require an apostrophe,
but it does require the placename to be found in period.  The only hit I
get for Minguere is a stream in Cameroon which is an unlikely focus for
an Italian locative.


Adelaide




More information about the Heralds mailing list