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.

Mary understood that the young Lady Jane was essentially a pawn in Dudley's scheme, and Dudley was the only conspirator of rank executed for high treason in the immediate aftermath of the coup.

The couple returned to Los Angeles and quickly became part of a social group that included some of the most successful young people in the film industry, including Steve McQueen, Warren Beatty, Mia Farrow, Peter Sellers, Jacqueline Bisset, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Joanna Pettet, Laurence Harvey, Peter Fonda and Jane Fonda, older film stars like Henry Fonda, Kirk Douglas, Yul Brynner and Danny Kaye, musicians such as Jim Morrison and the Mamas & the Papas, and record producer Terry Melcher and his girlfriend Candice Bergen.

Henry rides off to marry Jane Seymour and the film's final shot is of their young daughter, Elizabeth ( Amanda Jane Smythe ), toddling alone in the garden as she hears the cannon firing to announce her mother's death.

Anne had so far failed to produce a male heir, and Cromwell, aware that the King was growing impatient and had become enamoured of the young Jane Seymour, acted with ruthless determination, accusing Anne of adultery with several courtiers, including her own brother, Viscount Rochford.

William Cecil's early career was spent in the service of the Duke of Somerset ( a brother of the late queen, Jane Seymour ), who was Lord Protector during the early years of the reign of his nephew, the young Edward VI.

Both Jane Ellen Harrison and the French classicist Henri Jeanmaire have shown that both the Kouretes ( Κουρῆτες ) and Cretan Zeus ( called " the greatest kouros ( κοῦρος )" in the Cretan hymn found in an inscription at Palaikastro ) were intimately connected with the transition of young men into manhood in Cretan cities.

Thomas, therefore, acquired the guardianship of Elizabeth and also of Lady Jane Grey, another young member of the household.

* Jane Stanley died young.

Later, as a car-hire chauffeur, he picks up a young hitchhiker, Annie ( Jane Asher ) from Sheffield, looking to make a fresh start in London, who moves in with him.

John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, KG ( 1504 – 22 August 1553 ) was an English general, admiral, and politician, who led the government of the young King Edward VI from 1550 until 1553, and unsuccessfully tried to install Lady Jane Grey on the English throne after the King's death.

Bishop Gardiner pressed for the young couple's execution in a court sermon, and the Imperial ambassador Simon Renard was happy to report that " Jane of Suffolk and her husband are to lose their heads.

In a 1977 made-for-television movie, Mary Jane Harper Cried Last Night, Dey portrayed a disturbed young mother with serious psychological problems, who begins to take them out on her toddler daughter.

Anticipating the young king's imminent death from consumption and anxious to keep England true to the Reformation by keeping the Catholic Mary from the throne, John Dudley, Lord President of the Council and second only to the king in power, hatches a plan to marry his son, Lord Guilford, to Lady Jane Grey, and have the royal physician keep the young king Edward VI alive — albeit in excruciating pain — long enough to get him to name Jane his heir.

Jane is also pestered off and on during her stay by a friendly young Italian street urchin.

Primavera, a young adult novel by Mary Jane Beaufrand, tells the story of the Pazzi Conspiracy from the point of view of the youngest Pazzi daughter, Lorenza.

The rest of the cast consisted of the new and untried ( for instance Hildebrand Horden, who had just joined Rich's troupe, playing a rakish young lover ), the modest and lacklustre ( Jane Rogers, playing Amanda, and Mary Kent, playing Sir Novelty's mistress Flareit ), and the widely disliked ( the opportunist Colley Cibber, playing Sir Novelty Fashion ); people who had probably never been given the option of joining Betterton.

The screenplay followed the book closely with some minor changes and some characters omitted: in the adaptation there was only one archeologist, there was no doctor, Jane was a stewardess and in the end Poirot does not match Jane with young archeologist as mentioned in the novel and some other minor changes ( such as in the TV adaptation, Poirot takes Japp to Paris, whereas in the book he takes the French Surete detective and also in the book most of the characters have come from Le Pinet where they have been enjoying some time at the casino, whereas in the adaptation the characters have been at a tennis match in Paris.

* Thomas Jane as young Jimmy Gator

Regardless, Jane plotted with Anne to banish one of the King's young unnamed mistresses from court in 1534.

Mary Jane might not be the most intelligent woman, but she was one of the most determined.

In many respects, the novel ’ s “ current reader ” of the time was the woman who “ lay down her book with affected indifference, or momentary shame ,” according to Jane Austen, author of Northanger Abbey.

The high seriousness of the subject was also epitomized in Dante Gabriel Rossetti's painting ( illustrated ), in which a woman modelled by Jane Morris holds the Grail with one hand, while adopting a gesture of blessing with the other.

This marked his first collaboration with Jane Nebel — the woman who later became his wife "

* In The X-Files season 6, episode 7, first aired January 3, 1999, Dana Scully ( Gillian Anderson ) tells Fox Mulder ( David Duchovny ) that she believes a woman, Laura, played by Lisa Jane Persky, had taken a Mandrake medication to give herself a self-abortion to get rid of her " devil baby "

** Jane Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

Washington was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved woman, and a white father.

Washington was born into slavery to Jane, an enslaved African-American woman on the Burroughs Plantation in southwest Virginia.

Jane Austen wrote of Caroline: " Poor woman, I shall support her as long as I can, because she is a Woman and because I hate her Husband.

* A Toronto woman, publicly known only as Jane Doe, waged an 11-year court battle against the Toronto Police Service after being raped in 1986, alleging that the police had used her as bait to catch the Balcony Rapist.

* Serial killer Richard Laurence Marquette confessed to the murder of an unknown woman identified only as Jane Doe.

In September 1999 an English woman, Jane Ingram ( age 32 ) gave birth to triplets: Olivia, Mary and Ronan, with an extrauterine fetus ( Ronan ) and intrauterine twins.

Blanche, whose only other contact with the outside world is cleaning woman Elvira Stitt and her telephone conversations with her doctor and attorney, realizes that Jane is becoming increasingly unstable.

Union County Freeholder Bette Jane Kowalski is a Cranford resident and the first woman from Cranford to be elected to the Union County Board of Chosen Freeholders.

While her writing was not published formally in her lifetime ( except as Schoolcraft appropriated it under his own name ), Jane Johnston Schoolcraft has been recognized as " the first Native American literary writer, the first known Indian woman writer, the first known Indian poet, the first known poet to write poems in a Native American language, and the first known American Indian to write out traditional Indian stories.

* Jane H. Smith is the first woman principal, school superintendent, and state legislator from Bossier Parish.

* Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott, publisher of Little Pilgrim and the first woman journalist employed by the New York Times.

* Olive Jane Malcom ( 1840-1931 ), Rainier, Oregon, pioneer woman

Now Jane, though a woman of sensibility, has not much imagination & is not in the slightest degree nervous — neither in dreams or otherwise.

Jane Addams ( September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935 ) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace.

Francis ( Friedrich Fehér ) and an elderly companion are sharing stories when a distracted-looking woman, Jane ( Lil Dagover ), passes by.

They include mountain climbers ( Heidi Howkins, class of 1989, the only woman to lead expeditions to both Everest and K-2 ), authors ( such as Harriet Stratemeyer Adams, class of 1914, pen name Carolyn Keene ), astronomers ( including Annie Jump Cannon, class of 1884, who developed the well-known Harvard Classification of stars based upon temperature ), screenwriters, ( including Nora Ephron, class of 1962, famous for such films as When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle ), journalists ( Linda Wertheimer, class of 1965, Lynn Sherr, class of 1963, Diane Sawyer, class of 1967, and Cokie Roberts, class of 1964, being a few notable examples ), entrepreneurs ( including Robin Chase, class of 1980, the co-founder of ZipCar ), mathematicians ( Winifred Edgerton Merrill, class of 1883, was the first woman to ever receive a PhD in mathematics ), judges ( including Jane Bolin, class of 1928, the first African-American woman to become a judge, and current federal appeals judges Reena Raggi, Amalya Kearse, and Susan P. Graber ).