elsinora

Updated: May 11, 2025

Nightingale, seems to have been fond of giving his family place-names, for Florence's sister, about a year older than herself, had the old title of Naples tacked on to 'Frances, and in after life was always spoken of as 'Parthy' or 'Parthenope. By and by a young cousin of these little girls would be named 'Athena, after the town Athens, and then the fashion grew, and I have heard of twins called 'Inkerman' and 'Balaclava, and of an 'Elsinora, while we all know several 'Almas, and may even have met a lady who bears the name of the highest mountain in the world of course you can all guess what that is?

Mrs. Lang - The Red Book of Heroes