An exceptionally interesting review in the current London Review of Books by Colin Burrow on the subject of personal names in English literature. Worth reading for just one sentence, which seems to be the response to a literary challenge: can you construct a normal English sentence using the word 'knightly' three times in a row? Yes:

'The fact that [Jane] Austen called the knightly Knightley 'Knightley' suggests the way the choice of a name can follow from the particular nature of a specific work...'