Dolly Varden
The name Dolly Varden can refer to:
- Dolly Varden was a character in Charles Dickens' novel Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty. Dolly was a vain, flirtatious girl who wore colorful clothes, with a distinctive calico pattern.
- A Dolly Varden is also a large hat trimmed with flowers (named after the Dickens character)
- The character also gave her name to a kind of flowered muslin dress for women, with a pointed bodice and tucked-up skirt, as well as to the calico mauve-and-green-spotted fabric associated with this style of dress.
- There are three species of "trout" (actually technically char fish) which are (or have been) named Dolly Varden (Salvelinus confluentus - the first species to bear the name), (Salvelinus alpinus alpinus), and three subspecies of the same species (Salvelinus malma malma), (Salvelinus malma miyabei), and (Salvelinus malma krascheninnikova), originally named because their colorful appearance was reminiscent of the calico dress fabric pattern associated with the Dickens' character.
- A suburb of Porirua in New Zealand was also briefly called Dolly Varden.
- There is also a type of wooden siding called Dolly Varden, more accurately referred to as "rabbetted bevel" siding.
- A "Dolly Varden" or "Doally Varden" is a name given to a cherry-topped, icing-covered currant bun (Belgian bun) in the Cumnock Muirkirk area of Ayrshire Scotland
- There is a band (group) based in Chicago, USA that go by the name Dolly Varden (band).
- There is also a vanity mirror designed to sit upon a dressing table that is called a Dolly Varden mirror. Typically it has hinged winged mirrors on either side and is festooned with plaster flowers around the edges.
- A type of excursion passenger car used on the Denver, South Park and Pacific narrow gauge railroad in Colorado around the turn of the 20th. century.
- The name given to several gold mines, principally in British Columbia and Colorado.
- A settlement, copper mining district, and mountain range in southeastern Elko County, Nevada; and an independent political movement of the early 1870's. Some of the 'Dolly Varden's' were allied with Adolph Sutro in his 1874 US Senate campaign. The early settlers were presumably adherents to this political group. (See 'Nevada Place Names', Helen S. Carlson, 1974, Univ. Nevada Reno Press)
- A cake with 3 layers described in the Cakes and Biscuits section of the Edmonds_Cookbook (pp 46-47, publ. Bluebird Foods, 1990, Auckland, New Zealand), The base is a fruit cake, the middle layer lemon and the top chocolate. Between each layer there is Butter Icing (ibid, p 69). Each recipe contains at least one Edmonds product.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia; from the article "Dolly Varden". Image Credit.
