Talk:Araminta Garlick

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Further to the argument that TP never makes anything up:

  • It (the name "Araminta") was created by the versatile Sir John Vanbrugh, architect of Blenheim Palace as well as a playwright, for his comedy The Confederacy.
  • American abolitionist Harriet Tubman was born Araminta Harriet Ross.
  • In the Enid Bagnold novel National Velvet, Araminta is the name of the central character's mother.
    --Old Dickens (talk) 04:33, 25 August 2013 (GMT)