Tess (first name)
Tess also Tessie is a female given name .
Origin and variants
Tess is an independent form of the name, which is derived as a short form from Therese as a female name .
distribution
The name is in particular with Thomas Hardys (1840-1928) novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman Faithfully Presented (social drama, 1891, Ger. Tess von den d'Urbervilles ) and Grace Miller Whites (1868-1957) Tess of the Storm Country (youth novel, 1909), two classics of English literature, have become popular in English-speaking countries since the Belle Epoque as the epitome of a modern image of women. In the 1980s he became popular worldwide with the Polanski film Tess (Hardy film adaptation, 1979), starring Nastassja Kinski .
Name bearers
First name
- Tess Gerritsen (* 1953), American writer
- Tess Harper (born 1950), American actress
- Tess Haubrich (* 1990), Australian actress and model
- Tess Merkel (Eva Therese Margaretha Merkel; * 1970), Swedish singer
- Tess von Piekartz (* 1992), Dutch volleyball player
- Tess Slesinger (1905–1945), American writer and screenwriter
- Tess Wester (* 1993), Dutch handball player
Fictional characters
- Tess Carlisle in Hugh Wilson, Peter Torokvei: Guarding Tess (Film, USA 1994, Tess and her bodyguard )
- Tess Durbeyfield in Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d'Urbervilles (novel, 1891, also in three film adaptations)
- Tess Mercer in Alfred Gough, Miles Millar: Smallville (TV Series, USA 2008-2011)
- Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner in Grace Miller White: Tess of the Storm Country (also in four film adaptations)
literature
- Rosa Kohlheim, Volker Kohlheim: Tess . In: Duden - The great first name dictionary . 3. Edition. Bibliographer. Institut AG, Mannheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-06083-2 (also Duden - Lexicon of first names. 5th edition. 2007, ISBN 978-3-411-04945-5 .).
See also
Individual evidence
- ^ Tessa in the Concise Dictionary of First Names
- ^ Tess in the Concise Dictionary of First Names
- ↑ Original text , on Project Gutenberg