(Bolding added.)
Truth, in art as in life.
Not a stripper name, but I suspect it would have definite connotations. Unless I miss my guess, Ethelbertha’s a (possibly invented) feminine form of Æthelbert, the name of an Anglo-Saxon king.
The Victorians had developed an enthusiasm for their Anglo-Saxon forebears that, from what I can tell, was part pop history, part ethnic/racial pride, and part national myth-building, the whole thing being lovingly enrobed in a rich, velvety coating of Harlequin-level historical romance.
So we’ve got a new-coined name inspired by a fad for pseudo-historical ancestral fantasy that had been trendy a generation earlier, but which had since come to look a bit silly. I don’t know what the modern American equivalent would be, but I’d guess it was maybe nearer soccer mom than stripper.
My late father recalled his parents finding him laughing immoderately over Boat, and taking it away from him. (1930s)
My favorite part of 3 Men in a Boat is when you have a bunch of guys in a bar arguing over the catching of an enormous fish mounted on a wall, and then it comes crashing down and turns out to be made of glass.