L&T Archive 1998-2003

Names

A question that always bothered me was the name of Elinor in S&S. Was this a then fashionable way of spelling Eleanor or a totally different name? I was even more confused when I read Northanger Abbey to find Eleanor Tilney? Any thoughts

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Names
Spellings of names
Just a thought...
In P&P
Spelling and such
How strange
is it perhaps a translation? (nfm)