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Literary middle names

Literary middles are how you signal, without saying it, that this child has a bookshelf in her future.

The trick is restraint. Atticus is a first name now. Wilde is still available. Below, the borrowed names that haven't yet become exhausting.

  1. Wilde
  2. Frost
  3. Twain
  4. Marlowe
  5. Eliot
  6. Hugo
  7. Page
  8. Quill
  9. Verse
  10. Prose
  11. Ode
  12. Bard
  13. Cordelia
  14. Beatrice
  15. Ottilie
  16. Brontë