Bertha.

The blind daughter of Caleb Plummer in Dickens’s Cricket on the Hearth (a Christmas story), 1845.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Bernardo
Bernardo del Carpio
Bernard’s Inn
Berners or Barnes (Juliana)
Bernese
Bernesque Poetry
Bernouilli’s Numbers
Berserker
Berth
Bertha
Bertha
Bertha (Frau)
Berthas [Stock Exchange term]
Berthe au Grand Pied
Bertolde [Bar-told]
Bertram
Bertram (Henry)
Bertram, Count of Rousillon
Bertram Risingham
Bertramo
Berwicks [Stock Exchange term]