The Bakken -- It Doesn't Feel That Cold -- Monday, February 17, 2025

Locator: 48570B.

And it's sunny. All day.

Later:

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Shirley

Some years ago I noted the "evolution" of the name "Shirley" for women. 

Well, lo and behold, here's how that came about.

I came across it in The Brontës: Wild Genius On The Moor: The Story Of A Literary Family -- Juliet Barker, c. 2010, p. 46, and then proceeded to look it up in wiki:

Shirley, A Tale is an 1849 social novel by the English novelist Charlotte Brontë. It was Brontë's second published novel after Jane Eyre (originally published under Brontë's pseudonym Currer Bell). The novel is set in Yorkshire in 1811–12, during the industrial depression resulting from the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. The novel is set against the backdrop of the Luddite uprisings in the Yorkshire textile industry.

The novel's popularity led to the surname Shirley becoming popular as a first name for women. Brontë tells the reader it was a tradition in the family to only give this surname as a first name to male children. It wasn't commonly used as a first name in England before the book. It is now regarded as a female first name.

 That made my day. LOL. Much, much more at the wiki entry, of course.