My FMC has a (FEMALE) faithful, bubbly maid/do-everything servant who lives with her. Any name ideas?
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Lizzie?
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Estelle or Kathllen? Or Candice? Maybe Alyssa? (Courtesy of Seventh Sanctum)
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I think some popular/common women's names of that era were:
Mary
Peggy
Nancy
Jane
Anne
Polly
Biblical names were common and also virtues, like Honour, Faith, Grace. Shakespeare’s also a good source of names, though some of them were more unusual than others.
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Eleanor
----------Catherine
Sarah
Judith
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