| DONN | Arabella, character in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude The Obscure (4) |
| SUEBRIDEHEAD | Love interest of Jude Fawley in Thomas Hardy's novel Jude the Obscure |
| ALLEN | Arabella, character in Dickens's Pickwick Papers (5) |
| CLYM | ___ Yeobright, titular character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Return of the Native (1878) (4) |
| DEWY | Dick, character in Thomas Hardy's Under the Greenwood Tree (4) |
| FARFRAE | Donald, character in Thomas Hardy's novel The Mayor of Casterbridge (7) |
| EVERDENE | Bathsheba, character in Thomas Hardy's novel Far From The Madding Crowd (8) |
| JUDE | --- The Obscure, the last of Thomas Hardy's novels (4) |
| SUE | And 11 Cousin and lover of Jude Fawley in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure (3,9) |
| BRIDEHEAD | Cousin and lover of Jude Fawley in the Thomas Hardy novel Jude The Obscure (3,9) |
| HARDY | Dorset's celebrated literary figure who used the names Shaston or Palladour to describe the Saxon hilltop town Shaftesbury in the fictional Wessex of his novels Jude the Obscure and Tess of the D'Urbe |
| BLUE | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| SOUL | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| JOHN | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| DECO | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| LANE | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| ARMY | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| NADU | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| KING | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |
| DALE | Character in Thomas Hardy novel Tess of the D'Urbervilles who marries the heroine |