Cordelia

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Cordelia is a common first name in English. It is an elaboration of the word 'cor', which means heart in Latin. It may also refer to:

[edit] People

• Queen Cordelia, a legendary queen of the Britons
• The Anglicization of Creiddylad, a figure from Welsh mythology
• Cordelia de Castellane, a French designer.
• Dr.Cordelia Agnes Greene, a 19th century physician, philathropist and suffragist from Upstate New York.^[1]

[edit] In Fiction

• The title of a novel by Winston Graham, published in 1949. The titular character is known by the full name of Cordelia Blake.
• A character in the play King Lear by William Shakespeare, possibly based on the story of Queen Cordelia of the Britons and her father Leir.
• Cordelia Chase is a fictional character in the cult television series Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
• Cordelia Naismith is a fictional character in the Vorkosigan Saga novels by Lois McMaster Bujold.
• The main character of the short story "Cordelia the Crude" by Wallace Thurman
• Cordelia Gray is a fictional character in two books by P.D. James.
• Lady Cordelia Flyte is a fictional character in Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.
• Cordelia Flakk is a character from Jasper Fforde's Lost in a Good Book.

[edit] Other Uses

• Cordelia, California (sometimes referred to as Cordelia Junction), an area of Fairfield, California
• Cordelia Lutheran Church is a building on the National Register of Historic Places in Latah County, Idaho
• Cordelia (moon), a moon of Uranus, named after the Shakespearean character.
• 2758 Cordelia, an asteroid, named after the Shakespearean character.
• "Cordelia" (song) is a song by The Tragically Hip off their 1991 album Road Apples.
• Cordelia (butterfly), a genus of butterflies.
• Carlisle, Cordelia part of the original cast of season 2 of Oxygen's "Bad Girls Club"
• Cordelia's Dad, a band from Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.
• Cordelia, a Danish musical group^[2]