Tess
Short feminine name
Tess is a woman's name, a shortened form of Theresa or Tessa.
It gained literary resonance from Thomas Hardy's novel *Tess of the d'Urbervilles* (1891), whose tragic heroine made the name synonymous with rural innocence and victimhood: She had a Tess-like quality about her.
Hardy novel
Personal proper noun
- AlecGreek-rooted masculine name
- WessexEarly medieval English kingdom
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
- innocenceFreedom from wrongdoing
fate · suffering · protagonist · rural · Victorian · morality · patriarchy · redemption
Angel
Personal proper noun
- AlecGreek-rooted masculine name
- WessexEarly medieval English kingdom
- tragedyDisastrous or sorrowful event
innocence · fate · suffering · protagonist · rural · Victorian · morality · patriarchy · redemption · guilt
Teresa
Feminine name, Iberian origin
- nicknameInformal substitute name
- diminutiveVery small, or nickname form
- femininePertaining to women
classic · Victorian · vintage · English · literary · timeless · namesake
- Literary HeroinesJuliet, Ophelia, Cordelia, Desdemona, Lady Macbeth
- Thomas HardyWessex, Jude, Bathsheba
- 1979 FilmsApocalypse Now, Kramer vs Kramer, Rocky II, Star Trek, Mad Max
- British LiteratureShakespeare, Dickens, Charles Dickens, Jane Austen, Austen
- Classic BooksPride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Moby-Dick, Great Expectations
- MasterpiecesMona Lisa, Last Supper, Starry Night, The Scream, David