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To Esmé, without the Squalor

By Robin Bates | Published: June 15, 2021

I reflect upon a significant literary antecedent for my eldest granddaughter’s name and what it means.

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To Esmé and Alban with Love (No Squalor)

By Robin Bates | Published: June 18, 2012

With names from Salinger and Blake, my two new grandchildren have promising destinies.

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On Literary Names and Destinies

By Robin Bates | Published: July 26, 2009

Reynold, “Portrait of Sterne”                                   Just as I was born into a literary name, so were Darien and Toby.  Before telling the story, I will follow up on the allusion in my last post to Laurence Sterne’s Tristram Shandy […]

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