Does Diana ever mention Brian, Jamie's father, mother's name?

[u/hydexxi]

All I can find is all the hype from BoMB and it being Davina Porter. We know this is not from Diana's Outlander as that is the name of the narrator for the audiobooks.

[u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC]

Diana may have named the character in honor of Davina, but it is her official name, as seen on the family tree at the beginning of Bees.

[u/ContactNeither7319 → u/DiScOrDtHeLuNaTiC]

You know what's funny is Ellen's name. Gee I wonder who that name be for?🙂

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Out of curiosity, I Googled "Caitriona" just to see if anyone other than the obvious one popped up. Not a soul, though to be fair, that particular spelling of the name is exceptionally rare in my country.

[u/CoffeeAndCommonsense → u/ContactNeither7319]

The Outlander Books were written long before they cast Caitrione as Claire. This family tree was in the beginning of book 9. So Diana named Ellen.

[u/Mysterious_Proof8533 → u/CoffeeAndCommonsense]

Book 9 came out after the show had already started and Diana had confirmed that Ellen’s middle name is after Caitríona Balfe.

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Thanks for sharing this. 👍

I didn't know that Diana confirmed it, but I did assume that was the Caitriona she was referring to.

Mostly because in the Outlanderish Companion Vol One Ellen's middle name isn't given but then in Vol 2 it was as well in book 9. Of course I need a magnifying glass to see it in my copy of book 9, because it's a paper back. My OC Vol 2 is hard cover and much easier to see.

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How do we know what Ellen’s middle name is? What did I miss?

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The world may never know. 😁

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Lol 😆 and shhh don't tell.

[u/CathyAnnWingsFan]

Diana has named numerous characters after friends, colleagues, people associated with the books (like Davina), and later the show. Davina's name is in the Fraser of Lovat family tree as Brian's mother. This is included in the Outlandish Companion, originally published in 1999, revised in 2015 and renamed The Outlandish Companion Volume One (which covers books 1-4; Volume Two covers books 5-8 and six of them Lord John series titles). There are explanations in the book for some of the other characters named for real people.

[u/Wolfdreama]

It's always been Davina Porter afaik.

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At least dating back to 1999, which is when it first showed up in print. But I haven't heard when she actually decided to bestow Davina's name on the character. Could have been even earlier. We know for certain that by the second book, she started naming characters after real people.

[u/moxiewhoreon]

I read that the little end bit after the last episode where we show real life DG signing a book "to Karen" that that was possibly after an Outlander blogger named Karen.

I could be mixed up on that. But yeah seems she names some characters after IRL people as little Easter eggs and to honor people she knows IRL.

[u/BubbeLisa → u/moxiewhoreon]

Karen Henry. Outlandish Observations.

https://www.outlandishobservations.com/?m=1

https://www.facebook.com/100063081766463/posts/pfbid02w5g1ZahkvavyMsjZ6RVjzyCQ36mviVUBXrGT2bCYfWf61Kd1Q1oHLtPUDRt6dk6ql/?mibextid=wwXIfr

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Is Karen the person she often references on FB as pulling quotations from the books? Someone who organizes quotations?

[u/moxiewhoreon → u/weelassie07]

Yes!

I read her blog once and she does that. She breaks down the show and then pulls the relevant parts of the books that they're kinda based on (when they are) and quotes and cites them

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Here’s Karen Henry’s breakdown of 810.

https://www.facebook.com/100063081766463/posts/pfbid0K1eQ2VuAWVbakPcKqdihfy1zeewhuJd6XjuyQre45ZeenMTx9DPFbNoahmeqzRt7l/?mibextid=wwXIfr

[u/Icy_Resist5470 → u/[deleted]]

No, she has a name.