At her door, two or three hours later, Mary Jane whispered, `` Everyone is asleep ''.

It is, of course, easy to see how `` J '' will mean Uncle Jack to one person and little Jane to another.

Another marriage of note is that of Jane McAlester and William Louis Pfau.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

After a close reading of the Thesmophoriazousae, the historian Jane McIntosh Snyder observed that Agathon's costume was almost identical to that of the famous lyric poet Anacreon, as he is portrayed in early 5th-century vase-paintings.

Mainly because the re-publication of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall was prevented by Charlotte Brontë after Anne's death, she is less known than her sisters Charlotte, author of four novels including Jane Eyre, and Emily, author of Wuthering Heights.

Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre is yet another example of fictional autobiography, as noted on the front page of the original version.

As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime.

Jane Chance ( Professor of English, Rice University ) in her 1980 article " The Structural Unity of Beowulf: The Problem of Grendel's Mother " argued that there are two standard interpretations of the poem: one view which suggests a two-part structure ( i. e., the poem is divided between Beowulf's battles with Grendel and with the dragon ) and the other, a three-part structure ( this interpretation argues that Beowulf's battle with Grendel's mother is structurally separate from his battle with Grendel ).

Jane Jacobs described it as a natural consequence of collusion between those managing power and trade, while Noam Chomsky has argued that the word " crony " is superfluous when describing capitalism.

Advocates such as Jane Jacobs argue that this enables an economically depressed region to pull itself up, by giving the people living there a medium of exchange that they can use to exchange services and locally produced goods ( In a broader sense, this is the original purpose of all money.

Unlike Jane Eyre, which is written from the first-person perspective of the main character, Shirley is written in the third-person and lacks the emotional immediacy of Jane Eyre, and reviewers found it less shocking.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

* 1554 – A year after claiming the throne of England for nine days, Lady Jane Grey is beheaded for treason.

* Brooke Vandenberg ( Jane Kennedy ) is a reporter on Frontline.

The most famous parody of the Gothic is Jane Austen's novel Northanger Abbey ( 1818 ) in which the naive protagonist, after reading too much Gothic fiction, conceives herself a heroine of a Radcliffian romance and imagines murder and villainy on every side, though the truth turns out to be much more prosaic.

Jane Austen's novel is valuable for including a list of early Gothic works since known as the Northanger Horrid Novels.

Many modern writers of horror ( or indeed other types of fiction ) exhibit considerable Gothic sensibilities — examples include the works of Anne Rice, as well as some of the sensationalist works of Stephen King The Romantic strand of Gothic was taken up in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca ( 1938 ) which is in many respects a reworking of Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.

* Aunt Pittypat Hamilton: Her real name is Sarah Jane Hamilton, but she acquired the nickname " Pittypat " in childhood because of the way she walked on her tiny feet.

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.

Holbein applied this clean, craftsmanlike technique both to miniature portraits, such as that of Jane Small, and to grand portraits, such as that of Christina of Denmark.

Shortly before Tripp was scheduled to appear before the grand jury in the Lewinsky investigation, in March 1998, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Kenneth Bacon, and his deputy, Clifford Bernath, leaked to reporter Jane Mayer of The New Yorker magazine, Tripp ’ s answer to the arrest question on her security clearance form.

On July 26, 1943 Kaltenbach along with Max Otto Koischwitz, Jane Anderson, Edward Delaney, Constance Drexel, Robert Henry Best, Douglas Chandler and Ezra Pound was indicted in absentia by a District of Columbia grand jury on charges of treason.

He was born on January 11, 1843 at the corner of Greenwich and Carlyle Streets, New York City the son of Edward Satterlee and Jane Anna Yates, the daughter Henry Christopher Yates, an attorney-at-law ; and for a number of years a New York State Senator and member of the Council of Appointment and Catharine, daughter of Johannes Mynderse and a grand niece of Joseph Christopher Yates, who was an American lawyer, politician.

Of the daughter of the irritatingly grand Lady Catherine De Bourgh in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, the lickspittle Mr Collins declares, " she is perfectly amiable, and often condescends to drive by my humble abode in her little phaeton and ponies.

The grand, four spired belltower, the dominating landmark of the town, was built much later, between 1551 and 1553, by the Duke of Northumberland, father in law to Lady Jane Grey.

These included that his grand jury had not been legal ; that challenges of certain jurors were improperly overruled ; that testimony by Amelia Jane Schofield was not permissible as it was under another indictment ; and, most importantly, that it was his religious duty to marry multiple times.

He built a grand home and lived on the island for five years with his wife Mary Jane Hayden and twin children.

Mary Sue Hubbard, Jane Kember, Henning Heldt, Morris Budlong, Duke Snider, Dick Weigand, Greg Willardson, Mitchell Hermann and Cindy Raymond were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of theft, burglary, conspiracy, and other crimes.

Jane Austen's niece Fanny danced quadrilles and in their correspondence Jane mentions that she finds them much inferior to the cotillions of her own youth.

This enlarged the estate of the lord of the manor, the Reverend John Rawstorn Papillon, who was an acquaintance of Jane Austen and whose niece married Jane's brother Henry.

He died at Chiswick, Middlesex, on 31 May 1806, the title becoming extinct, and his property, after the death of his widow ( Lady Jane Stuart, daughter of the 3rd Earl of Bute ; they were married in 1768 ), going to his niece, whose son took the name.

She is the daughter of Peter Fonda, niece of Jane Fonda and granddaughter of Henry Fonda.

Two nephews and a niece were added: John H. Bayard ( 1762 – 1820 ), Jane Bayard ( 1765 -?

Jane Herbert Wilkinson Long ( 1798 – 1880 ) was born July 23, 1798 in Charles County, Maryland, the niece of General James Wilkinson.

* Jane Austen's Sanditon: A continuation, by Anna Austen Lefroy ( Austen's niece ), ISBN 0-942506-04-9 ( also unfinished )

Their surviving correspondence includes a letter of condolence of 4 April 1799, from Burney to Chapone, on the death in childbirth of Jane Jeffreyes, née Mulso, the niece to whom the Letters on the Improvement of the Mind had been addressed.

Anna Chancellor of Four Weddings and a Funeral fame played Mr. Bingley's sister Caroline Bingley ( of interest to Austen fans Anna Chancellor is also Jane Austen's niece by eight generations ).

Eva Linton died in 1980, and her estate was passed to her niece Dorothy Jane Snyder.

Franklin's redoubtable wife Jane Griffin, Lady Franklin, is also interred at Kensal Green in the vault, and commemorated on a marble cross dedicated to her niece Sophia Cracroft.

Henry Brandon's niece Lady Jane Grey eventually, and briefly, succeeded to the throne on 10 July 1553.

* Lady Jane Grey, her eldest niece.

His ex-wife, the former Carolyn Jane Mercer, is the daughter of flat jockey Manny Mercer, niece of jockey Joe Mercer and granddaughter of jockey Harry Wragg.

Jane takes on the role of Rebecca's protector, acting as a buffer between her niece and her sister, and teaches Rebecca to sew, cook and be a proper little housekeeper.

The whole Yorkhill estate was left by him to his niece, Jane Gilbert, when he died in 1838.