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.

* The Life and Times of Miss Jane Marple -- a biography by Anne Hart

Although popular from her first appearance in 1930, Jane Marple had to wait thirty-two years for her first big-screen appearance.

In the early 1960s she became synonymous with Miss Jane Marple in a series of four films loosely based on the novels of Agatha Christie.

Christie's works, particularly featuring detectives Hercule Poirot or Miss Jane Marple, have given her the title the ' Queen of Crime ' and made her one of the most important and innovative writers in the development of the genre.

West also made a brief appearance in the Miss Marple series in 1985, starring Joan Hickson as the redoubtable Miss Jane Marple, in A Pocket Full of Rye as the notorious Rex Fortescue.

She was Jessica Marbles, a sleuth based on Agatha Christie's Jane Marple, in the 1976 murder mystery spoof, Murder by Death, and she made her last film in 1980 as Sophie in Die Laughing.

* Geraldine McEwan as Miss Jane Marple

In 2007, McCutcheon was seen in two independent films, Withdrawal opposite Patrick Swayze and Jump !, as well Marple episode At Bertram's Hotel, where she plays a maid named Jane Cooper that assists Miss Marple with her investigations.

The main difference between Ja ' far in "" and later fictional detectives such as Miss Jane Marple and Hercule Poirot, however, is that Ja ' far has no actual desire to solve the case.

The quaint, sleepy village was home to the renowned detective spinster Miss Jane Marple.

However, Agatha Christie first described a village of that name prior to the introduction of Jane Marple, in the Hercule Poirot novel The Mystery of the Blue Train, in which it was home to that book's protagonist Katherine Grey.

The last cottage, Danemead, belonged to Jane Marple, the famous spinster who solved countless cases between 1930 and 1976.

* Murder Most Foul, a 1964 film based on the novels of Agatha Christie, starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss Jane Marple

Jane Marple, the elderly amateur sleuth, takes a holiday at Bertram's hotel in London, to re-live her happy memories of staying there during her youth.

Emily Temple cute ( sister brand of Shirley Temple, a Japanese boutique ), Jane Marple, and MILK are brands that carry more clothing that would be considered more casual, and are available to purchase at department stores in Japan.

Set in the fictional English village of St. Mary Mead, home of Miss Jane Marple ( played by Lansbury ), in 1953, a big Hollywood production company arrives to film a costume movie about Mary, Queen of Scots and Elizabeth I with two famous movie stars, Marina Rudd ( played by Taylor ) and Lola Brewster ( played by Novak ).

Inspector Craddock asks his aunt, the renowned amateur detective Miss Jane Marple, who injured her foot at the reception and is confined to her home, for assistance.

In episodic TV: Erica Taylor in The Sweeney, Griselda Clement in Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage, Pamela Drake in Boon, Sylvie Maxton in Inspector Morse, Lady Frances Carfax in the The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes: The Disappearance of Lady Frances Carfax, Aline Bauche in Maigret, Emily Coxon in Bramwell, Louise McAllister in Wing and a Prayer, Diana Grey in A Touch of Frost, Sandra MacKillop in Midsomer Murders, Emily Gascoigne in Foyle's War ( in the episode entitled A Lesson in Murder ), Maureen Hunt in Waking the Dead, Deputy PM in Spooks, Jean Swainbank in Dalziel and Pascoe, Valli Helm in Lewis, Ocean Waters in The Sarah Jane Adventures story The Vault of Secrets.

Although Jane Marple is the most famous character in the novel, and the person who ultimately solves the mystery, she does not fully enter the action until the half-way point of the novel.

In English, propositions usually follow folk psychological attitudes by a " that clause " ( e. g. " Jane believes that it is raining ").

Following him and Jane Ellen Harrison, several generations of scholars, usually arguing from known myths or oral traditions and examination of Neolithic female cult-figures, suggested that many ancient societies might have been matriarchal, or even that there existed a wide-ranging matriarchal society prior to the ancient cultures of which we are aware.

Susan is usually very sensible and organised, a fact often resented by her friends Sally and Jane.

The Christian hymn " Be Still, My Soul ", written in German (" Stille meine Wille, dein Jesus hilft siegen ") in 1752 by Katharina Amalia Dorothea von Schlegel ( 1697 – 1768 ) and translated into English in 1855 by Jane Laurie Borthwick ( 1813 – 1897 ), is usually sung to this tune.

A running gag occurred when Peter ( and on one occasion, Harry as well ) shuddered every time " wonderful personality " was used in reference to Mary Jane due to the fact it is usually believed that someone who is described with a " wonderful personality " means they are hideous in appearance.

He has also acquired an integrated computer which he usually uses to communicate to a powerful artificial intelligence known as Jane, whose existence is not made known to anyone.

The term was usually replaced in literature of the Early Modern English period by classically-derived equivalents, or " wild man ", but it survives in the form of the surname Wodehouse or Woodhouse ( for instance in the name of the author P. G. Wodehouse, or Jane Austen's character Emma Woodhouse ).

It was originally published by John F. T. Jane ( usually known as " Fred T .") in 1898 as Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships.

Frances Jane Crosby ( March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915 ), usually known as Fanny Crosby in the United States and by her married name, Frances van Alstyne, in the United Kingdom, was an American Methodist rescue mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer.

The variant performed around Plough Monday in Eastern England is known as the Plough Play ( also Wooing Play or Bridal Play ) and usually involves two female characters, the young " Lady Bright and Gay " and " Old Dame Jane " and a dispute about a bastard child.

He was prompted to write the serial after BBC Head of Drama Jane Tranter asked whether he would rather write something " bigger " than he had usually written so far in his career.

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

In Australia, John ( or Jane ) Citizen is usually seen as a placeholder in credit card advertisements, while Joe ( or Jane ) Bloggs is commonly used in speech.

The main story would be interspersed with songs ( usually from Rod, Jane and Freddy, although, guest singers would occasionally take their place ), animations, and stories read from the Rainbow storybook, usually by Geoffrey.

The manor was granted to Queen Eleanor by Henry III in 1262 and thereafter usually belonged to the queen consort or dowager until the death of Jane Seymour in 1537, leading to the ' Bower ' portion of the village's place name.

Valerie will ask her director for advice and " re-shoots " of a particular event, and Jane will usually avoid such communication and deny such requests by repeatedly telling Valerie she is forbidden to interact with her in any way.

His attempts to escape Jane and her cameras are usually futile.

Prior to this album, Jane Monheit's closing song in her concerts had usually been " Over the Rainbow ".

Jane Hall was one of four regular pundits on the Fox News Channel program Fox News Watch and frequently appeared on The O ' Reilly Factor, usually having clashes with the host.

Jane likes collecting lots of art and usually goes to Italy to do this.

Jane Austen, who referred to Fanny Burney as " the first of English novelists ," in Northanger Abbey refers to her inspiring novels:

Often people referred to the voice on Octel systems as " Jane " and Barbe and her husband John were named honorary life employees of Octel in 1992.

For the production of human ovum cells, the colony's founding fathers brought and maintained a set of ovarian tissue cultures which are abstractly referred to with a code indicating the original donor ’ s initials and the iteration of the culture ; e. g., CJB-9 is the 9th production of the tissue culture donated by Dr. Cynthia Jane Baruch.

In this timeline, Mary Jane and Peter Parker are reunited with their child, a daughter they name May ( though she is often referred to as " Mayday ").

At the end of The Amazing Spider-Man # 560, as part of the " Brand New Day " storyline, Mary Jane makes her return as the girlfriend of actor Bobby Carr, having earlier in the issue been referred to as Carr's " mystery girl.

The town was an important coaching stop on the way to Hastings from London, and the now defunct Royal Bell Hotel ( just off Market Square ) is referred to in Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice.

For instance, the episode " Invasion of the Bane " was not a pilot for The Sarah Jane Adventures because the BBC had committed to the first season before seeing any filmed content — yet it is routinely referred to as a pilot.

Dr Jane Whittaker, writing in 1999, described the case of a Mr. C. and referred to other similar cases ( De Haan & Campbell, 1991, McConachie, 1976 and Temple, 1992 ).

In an interview, Lamas said of Jane Wyman's persona into a hard-working legend, not a diva, who referred to her as a friendly woman on Falcon Crest: " With Jane, she expected you to know your lines, but she played poker with the crew at lunch.

She then uses the name ' Jane ' with the intention of referring to the child Jane's mother referred to.

* The Astral Plane is referred to in the songs " The Doorway " by Neurosis, " Gonna See My Friend " by Pearl Jam, " Mary Jane " by Megadeth, " Stormrider " by Iced Earth, " Over the Mountain " by Ozzy Osbourne, " Dream Weaver " by Gary Wright, " New Invaders " by Iris, " Legend of a Mind " by The Moody Blues, " Forest of Legend " by Vektor.

Nonetheless, the will, which originally referred to the Lady Jane's heirs-male, was amended to refer to the Lady Jane and her heirs-male.

Attendees are sometimes assigned initials ( e. g. JD for Jane Doe ) and referred to by these initials in the main body of the minutes.

The British comedy duo French and Saunders, who appeared on the programme in 1989, referred to Juke Box Jury in their parody of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

* This serial, along with The Time Warrior was referred to in The Sarah Jane Adventures serial The Last Sontaran.

This link became known to others as Haldane's principle, being referred to as such by urban planning theorist Jane Jacobs.

After Jane Stanford's death, the mosaic popularly gained the name " The Sermon on the Mount ", although Stanford University historian Richard Joncas insists that the mosaic does not depict the scene as described in the Gospel of Matthew and has referred to it simply as " an indefinite biblical scene ".

From O ' Hare to Huntley, the region around the Jane Addams Tollway is sometimes referred to as the " Golden Corridor ", due to the proximity of commercial and business activity located along the corridor in Northwest Suburban Chicago.

Sometimes referred to as " The Trimates " or " Leakey's Angels ", the other two were Jane Goodall, who studied chimpanzees, and Dian Fossey, who studied mountain gorillas.

* This story is referred to in two later episodes: in Remembrance of the Daleks, the Doctor refers to " the Zygon gambit with the Loch Ness Monster "; and in " School Reunion ", Sarah Jane Smith talks to Rose Tyler of her encounter with the Loch Ness Monster during her travels with the Doctor.

The idea for the 1994 sitcom Someone Like Me originated after Gail Berman ( now president of Viacom's Paramount Pictures ), the show's producer, read a New York Times article about the Hotel which referred to a children's book which Viva and friend Jane Lancellotti wrote entitled Gaby at the Chelsea ( a take on Kay Thompson ’ s 1950 ’ s classic Eloise books ).

A pump with a strap across the instep may be referred to as a " Mary Jane pump ", although it does not have the low heels or wide toe of the original Mary Jane ( and a pump is generally strapless by definition ).