The Australian academic and practicing Pagan Caroline Jane Tully argued that many Pagans can react negatively to new scholarship regarding historical pre-Christian societies, believing that it is a threat to the structure of their beliefs and " sense of identity.

In contrast, the novels of Scott's contemporary Jane Austen, once appreciated only by the discerning few ( including, as it happened, Sir Walter Scott himself ) rose steadily in critical esteem, though Austen, as a female writer, was still faulted for her narrow (" feminine ") choice of subject matter, which, unlike Scott, avoided the grand historical themes traditionally viewed as masculine.

While there has to be some elements of real life history to the setting under most definitions, the " detective " may be a real-life historical figure, e. g. Socrates, Jane Austen, Mozart, or a wholly imaginary character.

At other times he introduces the Professor to historical personages the Professor holds in high esteem but who are now languishing in Hell, such as Leonardo da Vinci, William Shakespeare and Jane Austen, showing him how petty and mendacious they really are.

Then, after a performance where Kean went out of his way to botch the opening night of " Switzerland " by historical novelist Jane Porter in February 1819, for whom Kean had had a personal dislike, Bucke pulled the play out of contempt for Kean's conduct .. After much cajoling to still perform the play by the theatre staff, Mr. Bucke then later had it republished with a preface concerning the incident, including excerpts from correspondences between the involved parties, which was later challenged in two books, The Assailant Assailed and A Defense of Edmund Kean, Esq.

* John Banks ' historical play The Innocent Usurper, about Lady Jane Grey, is banned from the stage.

Jane appears in the historical novel The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, which tells the story of her other sister-in-law, Mary Boleyn.

* " The Phoenix and the Laurel " ( 1954 ), a historical novel by Jane Lane ( author ) also takes the story of Claverhouse as its subject

* Elia, a historical and alternative name for the Jane and Finch neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada

The show features a large ensemble cast, and many historical figures appear as characters on the show — such as Seth Bullock, Al Swearengen, Wild Bill Hickok, Sol Star, Calamity Jane, Wyatt Earp, George Crook, E. B. Farnum, Charlie Utter, Jack McCall and George Hearst.

Jeanne () is a French female name, equivalent to the English Joan, Jane, Jean and several historical figures in English named Joanna.

Rather than simply being versions of contemporary romance stories transported to a historical setting, Regency romances are a distinct genre with their own plot and stylistic conventions that derive from the works of Jane Austen, ( and to some extent from distinguished Austen progeny such as Georgette Heyer and Clare Darcy ), and from the fiction genre known as the novel of manners.

* Jane Lane ( author ) ( 1905-1978 ), British historical novelist

* Food with the Famous ( 1979 ; Grub Street, 1991 ; vignettes of 11 historical figures-John Evelyn, Jane Austen, Marcel Proust and others-with recipes for their favourite dishes )

Lady Jane Grey was, like Mary Queen of Scots, a female whose sufferings attracted many painters, though none quite matched The Execution of Lady Jane Grey, one of many British historical subjects by the Frenchman Paul Delaroche.

Jane Porter ( 17 January 1776 – 24 May 1850 ) was a Scottish historical novelist and dramatist.

Jane and Anna Maria Porter, who both lived in London and Surrey later on, were sisters of Sir Robert Ker Porter, the historical painter.

Author Jane Raeburn believes that while there is " a firm distinction between historical Celtic inspiration and modern Wiccan practice ", that the two can be blended to form " a living path of ethical and spiritual growth ".

Major influences on the subgenre include the social novels of Jane Austen, the drawing room comedies of P. G. Wodehouse, and the historical romances of Georgette Heyer.

In addition to the plethora of fictional characters who populate Jane ’ s narrative, Jane and others make many references to historical events and figures over the close-to-a hundred years Miss Jane can recall.

Along the way, he encountered various fictional drifters and outlaws in addition to well-known historical figures, such as Jesse James, Calamity Jane and Wild Bill Hickok.

I suddenly thought of Mary Jane Brennan, the way her pretty eyes could flash with anger, her quiet competence, the gentleness and sweetness that lay just beneath the surface of her defenses.

These books, with their lurid titles, were once thought to be the creations of Jane Austen's imagination, though later research by Michael Sadleir and Montague Summers confirmed that they did actually exist and stimulated renewed interest in the Gothic.

The soundtrack is notable for Wenders asking various recording artists — Depeche Mode, U2, R. E. M., Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Can, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Lou Reed, Jane Siberry, etc .— for music to be used in the film ; specifically for the music that they thought they would be making in 1999.

Others have described it as " Jane Austen plus sex ", a description Mary Wesley herself thought ridiculous.

" New York's Daily News, which quotes Moffat " boozier, smokier, more shag-infested series " than Friends, also thought that " some characters ... have ties closer to Seinfeld ... Jane, who, despite her beauty, is so abrasive she's like a female Newman.

The exact nature of her relationship with her royal sister-in-law is not clear either, and there is no evidence as to what she thought of her other sister-in-law, Mary Boleyn, who had been at court with Jane since they were both teenagers.

( Modern rumours that George Boleyn, Dean of Lichfield, a colourful character, was the child of Jane and George are now thought to be false.

What largely contributed to its fame was its picture of Lady Jane Grey, whose love of learning was due to her finding her tutor a refuge from pinching, ear-boxing and bullying parents ; some exceedingly good as criticisms of various authors, and a spirited defence of English as a vehicle of thought and literature, of which it was itself an excellent example.

One example concerns an actress, Jane Wyatt, who is a descendant of the prominent Van Rensselaer family, was thought to be removed from inclusion because of her profession, but was still listed until her death in October 2006 at the age of 96.

Meanwhile, putting together facts about Jane's origins, the ansible, and philotes, the irreducible building blocks of all matter everywhere, they deduce that Jane has the power to take any object she knows about in great detail and pull it outside the known universe, an area where conscious thought has a lot more power than anything else.

Likewise, Jane Espenson remarked that Groener played the part exhibiting a " wonderful innocent glee " towards evil that she thought was " delightful ".

Other crossover shows include one where the Clampetts, Milburn Drysdale, and Miss Jane spend both Thanksgiving and Christmas of 1968 in Hooterville on The Beverly Hillbillies and a 1970 episode of The Beverly Hillbillies in which Mr. Drysdale thought that billionaire Howard Hughes lived in Hooterville ( the man turned out to be Howard Hewes, who owned Hooterville real estate, including the field Steve Elliot rented to maintain his crop plane .).

Wide Sargasso Sea is usually thought of as a postmodern and postcolonial response to Jane Eyre.

Jane is an artificial sentience thought to exist within the ansible.

' Ferndean Manor ' in Charlotte Brontë's novel Jane Eyre is thought to be based on Wycoller Hall.

Jane Norgrove, in her efforts to dispel " all this nonsense about a conspiracy ," simply raised new concerns when she claimed that she had wiped her tape after giving a copy to The Sun: " I want to make clear that the Enquirers tape was nothing to do with me [...] I thought I'd better speak to the Sun again, in case people thought it was me.

TV series Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures are currently based at Upper Boat Studios on Treforest Industrial Estate ( thought to be largest complex of its kind in Wales ).

Jane Stanford intended the dome's decoration of to be of mosaic tiles showing a variety of symbols, but the church's builders thought it would make the dome too heavy, so the decorations were painted.

It is thought to be the inspiration for Jane Austen's Mansfield Park.

In a recent interview with the Journal of Individual Psychology, Jane Griffith said ," The holistic character of thought is in Adler's choice of the term Individual Psychology.

While Han Fei-tzu immediately seizes the truth of this idea, his daughter Qing-jao cannot accept this and believes that Jane must be destroyed, but Wang-mu sees Jane as an intelligent and compassionate person and is greatly saddened at the thought of her death.

Discussing Jo's return in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial Death of the Doctor, Ian Berriman of SFX magazine thought that " Davies nails the character the moment she walks through the door – clumsy, babbling, sweet-natured ".