Thursday's Name Game

Name:  Clarissa
Gender:  Gender
Character From:  Mortal Instruments Series by Cassandra Clare

Meanings and history of the name Clarissa:

• Form of Clara, from Latin, meaning "clear, shining"

Personal Experience:

• None...what about you?

Places name Clarissa:

• Clarissa Minnesota, United States.
• Clarissa Falls, a resort in Belize.
• Clarissa Street is a historical street in Rochester, New York that had once been a cultural and commercial center of the city.

Famous real-life people named Clarissa: 

• Clarissa Childs, American golfer, DOB March 23, 1974
• Clarissa Scott Delany (1901-1927), American poet
• Clarissa Kaye, Australian stage, film and television actress
• Clarissa Eden, Countess of Avon (born Anne Clarissa Spencer-Churchill
• Clarissa Pinkola Estés, American poet, psychoanalyst, and author

 

Clarissa in song, story & screen:

• Clarissa Harlowe, heroine of Samuel Richardson's novel "Clarissa"
• Clarissa Darling, main character in T.V. show "Clarissa Explains It All"
• Clarissa Dalloway, protagonist of Virginia Woolf's "Mrs. Dalloway"
• Clarissa Harlowe, from Samuel Richardson’s popular novel Clarissa, or the History of a Young Lady. 
• Clarissa Spenlow, from the Charles Dickens novel David Copperfield.
  

List adapted from www.babynamewizard.com


These are just some I know...what about you?