What is Cordelia?
Cordelia has several meanings. It is the name of one of the satellites of Uranus. In fact, it is the innermost satellite of the planet. It is also the name of the youngest of the king’s three daughters in ‘King Lear’ by William Shakespeare. In the literary masterpiece written by the Bard of Avon, Cordelia is one of the three daughters who actually care for her father, King Lear. Cordélia is also the name of Canadian-French language film written and directed by Jean Beaudin in the year 1980. Cordelia is the name attributed to a girl. It is derived from the Celtic name implying ‘daughter of the sea.’ The name was first used in the Shakespeare’s play mentioned in the previous paragraph.
Coraline is the scary book for strange little girls (of all ages and genders) which comes out late summer next year in the US and the UK (from HarperCollins in the US and Bloomsbury in the UK). Cordelia, on the other hand, is a fiction of Amazon.co.uk’s imagination (it actually carries the ISBN for the US HarperCollins edition of Coraline.
