Bathsheba makes a great
Thomas Hardy heroine. But it would be hard to pull off in real life. I like it in theory, just not in practice. I have the same reaction to
Balthazar for a boy.
The nn
Sheba is difficult for me to see on a woman because that was our labrador retriever's name.
The name Scheherezade (sp?) has been going through my mind lately. It has the same feeling as
Bathsheba.