Jeanette’s Notebook: Personalized Journal for Jeanette
Jeanette's Notebook puts her name front and center, written in flowing script across a soft watercolor apple blossom design.
- 160 lined pages
- 6" x 9" paperback
- Watercolor apple blossom cover with "Jeanette's Notebook" on the front
- Printed and shipped by Amazon
Jeanette: meaning and origin
Jeanette is a diminutive of Jeanne, the French feminine form of Jean (John). Wikipedia says it ultimately goes back to the Hebrew meaning “God is gracious”, and lists Jeannette, Jeannetta and Jeanetta as alternative forms, with Janette and Janet as close relatives. Behind the Name treats Jeanette as a variant of Jeannette.
Nicknames and variants
Behind the Name lists Nettie as the English diminutive of Jeanette, and Janine, Jeanine, Jeannie and Jeannine as variants. Jeannie is warm and familiar; Nettie is the old-fashioned favorite.
Famous people named Jeanette
Soprano Jeanette MacDonald starred in 29 films in the 1930s and 1940s, including musicals with Maurice Chevalier and Nelson Eddy, and Wikipedia credits her with introducing opera to movie audiences. English author Jeanette Winterson’s semi-autobiographical first novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, won the Whitbread Prize for a First Novel; she has also won a BAFTA for Best Drama and was made a CBE for services to literature.
Is Jeanette a popular name?
Jeanette had a long, steady run. US Social Security data has it in the girls’ top 200 from the 1900s right through the 1970s, peaking at 102nd in the 1930s, with nearly 25,000 American Jeanettes, and holding about the same numbers in the 1940s and 1950s. Behind the Name says it was a top-100 name in England and Wales into the 1960s, too.
Jeanette trivia
The heroine of Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit is also called Jeanette. Wikipedia says Winterson wrote the novel by hand, mostly in the British Museum’s Reading Room, and when the BBC asked her to script it as a three-part drama in 1989, she renamed the heroine Jess so viewers wouldn’t take it as pure autobiography. The series won the BAFTA for best drama.
Gift ideas that suit a Jeanette
- For a book club. Reading notes, in honor of Jeanette Winterson.
- For a classic film fan. A watch list of 1930s musicals.
- For a singer. Practice notes, in honor of soprano Jeanette MacDonald.
- For a grandmother. Jeanette was steady from the 1930s to the 1950s.
How Jeanette can use it
Any Jeanette, of any age. The 6" x 9" size is roomy enough for proper writing and small enough for a handbag or school bag. With 160 plain lined pages there’s no fixed layout, so it can be a diary, a gratitude journal, a study notebook, a recipe book or a home for to-do lists. Notebooks tend to multiply in drawers, but one with her name on the front is instantly hers.
The little things that make it hers
There’s something about seeing your own name in print. It makes a notebook feel like it belongs to you, which is a good reason to fill it. It also means Jeanette can pick hers out of a pile in a second, at school, at work or on the kitchen counter.
Frequently asked questions
How big is Jeanette’s Notebook? About the size of a trade paperback book: 6 x 9 inches (15.2 x 22.9 cm), 160 lined pages.
Where do I buy it? It’s sold on Amazon in the US, Australia and the UK. Amazon prints and ships each copy and handles delivery and returns.
Do you have other names? Yes, the same apple blossom design comes in hundreds of girls’ names. Start at all name notebooks or our personalized name notebooks guide.
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