Maurice said: It seems to me that the name has never been quite as
popular in other literatures, except in the Spanish one perhaps. Am I right?
 

Matt: Here is a list of pre-1950 books (drawn from Worldcat) with Lolita in the title:
 

Mateo and Lolita, 
Author: Durfee, Burr.; McMorris, Helen,; McMorris, John,

Publication: Boston, New York [etc.] Houghton Mifflin Co. 1939

Document: English : Book : Juvenile audience

 

Lolita Katoewoea :
ioeki i Loeka.
 
Author: Esser, S. J.

Publication: Bandoeng : British and Foreign Bible Society, 1939

Document: Austronesian [Other] : Book

 

El idilio de Lolita en Nueva York;
farsa en dos actos ...
 
Author: Wofsy, Samuel Abraham.

Publication: Madison, Wis., Sociedad hispanica de la universidad de Wisconsin, 1925

Document: Spanish : Book : Fiction

 

Lolita Tenorio :
comedia en dos actos y en prosa /
 
Author: Muñoz Seca, Pedro, 1881-1936.; Pérez Fernández, Pedro,

Publication: Madrid : R. Velasco [impresor], 1916

Document: Spanish : Book

 

Lola, Lolita, Lolilla y Lolo :
pasillo cómico en un acto, original /
 
Author: Pérez Fernández, Pedro, 1885-1956.

Publication: Madrid : Sucesor de R. Velasco, 1924, ©1923

Document: Spanish : Book

 

 

Lolita :
cantares y juegos de las niñas /
 
Author: Santiago Gadea, Augusto C. de.

Publication: Madrid : Tip. de los Hijos de Tello, 1910

Document: Spanish : Book

 

Lolita :
roman /
 
Author: Houssaye, Henry, 1848-1911.

Publication: Paris : J. Vigneau, 1945

Document: French : Book : Fiction

 

 

El despertar del alma :
cartas a Lolita : primera serie /
 
Author: Bruschetti, Attilio.

Publication: Barcelona : A. Roch, 1920-1929?

Document: Spanish : Book

 

 

Lolita Alcázar :
comedia lírica en un acto y cuatro cuadros /
 
Author: Julián, Ramón de.; López Merino, Juan.

Publication: Melilla [Spain] : Tip. La Española, 1912

Document: Spanish : Book

 

Lolita, buscadora de emociones :
novela /
 
Author: Retana Ramírez de Arellano, Alvaro.

Publication: Madrid : Sucesores de Rivadeneyra, 1923

Document: Spanish : Book : Fiction

 

Lolita,roman algérien. 
Author: Gast, René.

Publication: Paris, A. Michel 1927

Document: French : Book : Fiction

 

Lolita y el Diablo ; y, Todos somos iguales / 
Author: Mario, José.

Publication: Habana : Impr. C.T.C. Revolucionaria, 1950s

Document: Spanish : Book

 

 

Lolita Tenorio
comedia en dos actos y en prosa /
 
Author: Muñoz Seca, Pedro, 1881-1936.; Pérez Fernández, Pedro,

Publication: Madrid : R. Velasco [impresor], 1916

Document: Spanish : Book

 

La chanson de Lolita / 
Author: Riche, René.

Publication: Paris : A. Messein, 1920

Document: French : Book

 

I have also found the following using Google Books:

 

A story by Charles Fletcher Lummis called "Little Lolita," in his book New Mexico David.

 

Lola, A Tale of Gibralter (1877), by Arthur Griffiths, in which Lola is sometimes called Lolita.

 

"Lolita," a prose sketch in Mary Agnes Tincker's Autumn Leaves: Verse and Story (1899?)

 

No doubt there are more. And there are even more (many more) songs with Lolita in the title.

 

Matt Roth

 

 

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