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What are your thoughts on Medora?
Various info I have found on it, if you're interested:
"Medora was the name of a character in George Gordon, Lord Byron's poem "The Corsair" (1814). His half-sister, Augusta Leigh, named her daughter (who might have been from her affair with Byron) Elizabeth Medora Leigh after the character."
"[Name historian] Sophie Moody suggested that it meant 'mother's gift' (contraction of Metrodora); other possibilities include an altered form of Medea, or a coined feminine of Greek Medo, 'lord or guardian'. It has occasionally been used in Britain as a first name."
"Medora von Hoffman, the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, met and married the Marquis de Mores in Cannes, France, in 1882. The Marquis built the 'Chateau de Mores' in the badlands of North Dakota, and then brought his wife Medora and family to live there for three summers, while away from France. The Marquis named the North Dakota town Medora after his young wife."
- mirfak
Various info I have found on it, if you're interested:
"Medora was the name of a character in George Gordon, Lord Byron's poem "The Corsair" (1814). His half-sister, Augusta Leigh, named her daughter (who might have been from her affair with Byron) Elizabeth Medora Leigh after the character."
"[Name historian] Sophie Moody suggested that it meant 'mother's gift' (contraction of Metrodora); other possibilities include an altered form of Medea, or a coined feminine of Greek Medo, 'lord or guardian'. It has occasionally been used in Britain as a first name."
"Medora von Hoffman, the daughter of a wealthy New York banker, met and married the Marquis de Mores in Cannes, France, in 1882. The Marquis built the 'Chateau de Mores' in the badlands of North Dakota, and then brought his wife Medora and family to live there for three summers, while away from France. The Marquis named the North Dakota town Medora after his young wife."
- mirfak
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