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	The New York Review of Books: Founding Mother
		And Jane Addams puzzles the philosophically minded, because she was plainly an intellectual in just about any understanding of that term, and certainly more imaginative than most of her peers in expressing the democratic and egalitarian hankerings of the age.
		Jane's back was somewhat misshapen, and it became clear that she could not hope to spend the long hours at a dissecting bench that would be required if she was to qualify as a doctor.
		Jane Addams always insisted that the idea of buying a large house in the middle of the cramped dwellings of the poor was one that came to her when she was six and visited with her father the working-class neighborhood of Freeport, Illinois, where his bank was located.
	www.nybooks.com /articles/18951 (4166 words)

	Chapters 9-10
		Jane has now been at Lowood for six years as a pupil, and now two years as a teacher, but she feels she needs to search for a ‘new servitude’.
		Jane had a sleepless night, and it seemed to her that a voice spoke telling her to seek liberty from the prison that Lowood was to her.
		Jane is offered the position provided she can obtain suitable references, and after what seems an age, she obtains these from the governing board of the school, who cannot fault her for the service she has put in at Lowood.
	www.bookwolf.com /Free_Booknotes/Jane_Eyre_by_Charlotte_Bronte/Chapters_9-10-Jane_Eyre/chapters_9-10-jane_eyre.html (713 words)

	Ferndean and Better Homes and Gardens
		When Jane arrives at Ferndean a warm spring rain is falling, the winter months have drawn to a close, and the spacious, though hardly imposing, country manse stands before her in the dusk, and she immediately has a feeling of home like no other she has known.
		Jane has been ambitious for a career and a place of her own in the patriarchy, but has settled for a marriage as her career and a place approximating the patriarchy where she can say she has her own world while waiting for the world outside to catch her up.
		News Jane hears of with tears and joy, a reaction in keeping with her tendency toward support and subversion, at the fact that the patriarchy that oppresses women and views them as unequal to full inclusion is on its deathbed.
	www.umd.umich.edu /casl/hum/eng/classes/434/charweb/simmons6.htm (695 words)

	A. Robert Smith: Excerpt from "Misdiagnosed"
		In other words, the only medical explanation I have found for Jane's becoming a strong believer in alternative medicine is that she felt it helped her weather painlessly a major crisis of her life, with the result that her sense of her own femininity remained undiminished.
		Jane's pursuit of healing from this assortment of alternative practitioners to the exclusion of conventional medicine shows more clearly than even I had realized previously just how partisan she was in favoring alternative medicine over mainstream allopathic medicine.
		Jane was so seemingly healthy all the years I knew her, never even suffering the common cold, that we believed we had found the fountain of health, if not youth, in our sensible habits.
	www.paraview.com /arsmith/arsmith_excerpt.htm (5681 words)

	The Jazz Age - Jane Green (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In 1911 Jane and her brother Fred became known as "Those Kentucky Kids" and entertained on Spring Street in LA. Jane's mother, being part Cherokee Indian, had taught her to be proud of her Indian heritage resulting in Jane's appearances in rodeos as a championship trick horse rider.
		By 1925 Jane is becoming a Broadway veteran and could be seen in the seventh edition of "The Greenwich Village Follies".
		Little is known of Jane's activities during 1929 and 1930 although she was heard on the "Ship of Joy" radio program in Los Angeles in 1929.
	www.dgarrick.com /jazzage/janegreen/janegreen.php (877 words)

	CliffsNotes::Jane Eyre:Book Summary and Study Guide
		Jane worries she’ll lose herself if “tricked out” in these “stage-trappings.” Not only does he want to make Jane a “beauty,” Rochester also wants her to be his “angel” and “comforter.” Jane reminds him that she simply wants to be herself, not some “celestial” being.
		What Rochester values in Jane is her pliancy, which allows him to shape her into the woman he desires, something that wouldn’t have been possible with a powerful woman like Blanche.
		Jane makes this idea apparent when she claims Rochester gives her a smile such as a sultan would “bestow on a slave his gold and gems had enriched.” Insisting that he prefers his “one little English girl” to the “Grand Turk’s whole seraglio,” Rochester points to Jane’s powerlessness, her reduction to sex slave.
	www.cliffsnotes.com /WileyCDA/LitNote/id-23,pageNum-61.html (766 words)

	Outpost Daria - Episode #403: "A Tree Grows in Lawndale"
		When Daria and Jane try to think of a way to rectify the situation, Tom suggests that Kevin could regain his self-esteem by becoming a safety speaker at elementary schools, lecturing kids on the dangers of riding motorcycles and how to avoid the mistake he made.
		Jane calling Quinn "Quinnie O" is a play on "Jackie O," the nickname of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (who, apparently, tended to dress in a manner that would hide herself from the press while married to Aristotle Onassis).
		He took Daria and Jane's word that wearing a leather jacket necessitates riding a bike, and then he was peer pressured into doing a wheelie by the Three J's, whom he must outrank on some level.
	www.outpost-daria.com /ep403.html (1766 words)

	Lady Jane Grey: Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Dudley started by becoming Jane's ward, and then he convinced the Suffolks that their daughter, the first eligible female in the line of succession to the throne, should marry his last unmarried son, Lord Guildford Dudley.
		To these ends, Jane was bullied into marrying a young man she hardly knew and becoming the daughter-in-law of a man she hated and distrusted.
		The event was a triple wedding with not only Jane's marriage, but the marriage of her younger sister Katherine to Lord Herbert, and finally the marriage of Catherine Dudley, daughter of the Northumberlands to Lord Hastings, son of the Earl of Huntingdon.
	www.ladyjanegrey.org /marriage (348 words)

	[No title]
		Jane’s favorite place in the world is wherever she happens to be.
		Jane admires talent, adding every time she visits an art exhibit or attends a concert, she envies the artist, writer or performer, people with talent of any kind she wishes she had.
		Jane’s latest achievement is her legacy of the libraries 30 years of service.
	www.woso.com /vip/vip.asp?id_vi=1575 (271 words)

	Timothy Dalton's Web Site - Review of Jane Eyre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jane hurries to Rochester, at a remote piece of property, where she discovers him broken down and dispirited, believing Jane to be forever lost to him, and suffering from the physical punishments God has inflicted upon him for trying to fly in the face of morality.
		There is a beautiful, poignant moment when Rochester first proposes to Jane by baring his soul to her, allowing her to look, not into his eyes, but into his soul, where he reveals not the worldly exterior and the miseries with which life has saddled him, but the true, pure being beneath.
		Jane's refusal to go away with him (specifically chronicled in the book to emphasize the correctness of this decision) just barely holds up here, for you cannot believe Dalton's Rochester would eventually fall out of love with Jane for becoming his mistress, rather than his wife.
	www.timothydalton.com /rjane.html (1707 words)

	Money (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Not only does Jane not have any for a long time, she is made to feel inferior to those who do and she develops a dislike for wealthy people in general.
		Jane was essentially an adopted child however, she was to call John Master Reed and obey him.
		Jane was made to feel inferior to the Reed children because they will grow up and have money and Jane will not.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/forums/e324/week8_spring98/messages/889941796.html (389 words)

	THE MYSTERY READER reviews: Icing Ivy by Evan Marshall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		When Jane realizes he has been keeping company with another guest at the retreat, she is concerned about Ivy’s choice for a possible mate.
		But before Jane is able to express her concern, Ivy is found murdered with an ice pick and Johnny is seen being chased off by a man with a gun.
		Jane is becoming an independent woman as she slowly recovers from her husband’s death, but is still often reflective and sad from time to time.
	www.themysteryreader.com /marshall-ivy.html (346 words)

	DVD Verdict Review - Lady Jane
		Our movie Jane (Helena Bonham Carter) is studious (she can read Plato in Greek) and demure, a level-headed Protestant whose intellectual capabilities compensate for a stifled and naïve passion.
		It is largely the performance of Helena Bonham Carter, only 20 at the time (the real Jane Grey was 16 during her reign), that keeps Jane from becoming merely a martyred mouthpiece for the film's politics.
		The result is that the enthusiasm of Jane and Guilford's relationship is as stifled for the audience as, well, it is for the young lovers.
	www.dvdverdict.com /printer/ladyjane.php (882 words)

	A Conversation with Helen Lewis
		In 1990 she was the recipient of an NEH summer fellowship to study "British Women Romantic Poets." This is her first summer on the Great Plains Chautauqua circuit portraying Jane Addams.
		Kristin M. Johnson: Please discuss your interest in Jane Addams and how it led to your portraying her as a member of the Great Plains Chautauqua Society this summer.
		"Becoming Jane" while teaching full-time at Western Iowa Tech Community College and actively serving on a number of campus, community and state committees has proved really challenging in terms of time.
	www.uiowa.edu /~humiowa/HelenLewis.htm (922 words)

	'Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy,' by Louise W. Knight - The New York Times Book Review - New York ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Jane Addams, who had founded Hull House in Chicago five years earlier as a place of refuge and support for the poor, was stunned by the class antagonism that followed.
		Yet Addams would go on to become one of the greatest of Americans, and the pilgrimage she made to Lincoln Park, as Louise W. Knight relates in "Citizen," was a key stop along the way.
		She had developed a friendship with the University of Chicago philosopher John Dewey, and Dewey's pragmatism opened her to the idea that conflict was a fact of social life, even a sign of progress, not some deviation from an idealistic yearning for harmony.
	www.nytimes.com /2006/01/15/books/review/15wolfe.html?ex=1294981200&en=33c64911515ebfcd&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss (782 words)

	JASA News: June 2002
		Though Jane Austen was quite well read, she had little or no influence on the formation of cultural and political values in her own society, let alone in a brand new society on the other side of the world, of which she had probably heard very little.
		Jane Austen however was able to write about these so-called deadly dull people with such skill that 200 years later she is still being read and enjoyed.
		Jane had aunts, nieces, sisters-in-law and cousins to be reckoned up by dozens (although of course her great family confidante was her sister Cassandra).
	www.jasa.net.au /newsju02.htm (8215 words)

	Jane Austen Books
		This book demonstrates the importance of Jane Austen’s clerical background and explains the clergy in her novels: Patronage, Manners and Morals, the Clergy and the Neighborhood, more.
		She inherited the original manuscript of Jane’s, and decided to finish it — this book is the result.
		Jane’s father was both pupil and teacher at Tonbridge School.
	www.janeaustenbooks.net /catalog.asp (6638 words)

	"SHERBORNE ST JOHN AND THE VYNE IN THE TIME OF JANE AUSTEN"
		Her eldest brother, the Rev. James Austen, was for 28 years the Vicar of Sherborne St John, and a close friend of the Chute family who lived at The Vyne.
		Jane herself seems to have had a low opinion of William Chute, the eccentric lord of the manor and local M.P., though he was generally much-loved and is the subject of numerous anecdotes.
		Chute's arrival in the county in 1790, decidedly 'a single man in possession of a good fortune', is thought to be immortalised in the famous opening passage to Pride and Prejudice.
	www.sndc.demon.co.uk /jabks.htm (802 words)

	Re: Re: Independent Jane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I feel that beause Jane was treated so poorly during her childhood that it made her become a very strong individual and it tought her to fend for herself.
		I think that the example of Jane becoming a dependent woman is when she falls in ove with Rochester.
		I think that Jane is aying that there is some dependence on Rochester, but she wants him to know that she is her own woman and is allowed to think what she wants.
	www.cwrl.utexas.edu /~bump/forums/e324/week8_spring98/messages/890676511.html (490 words)

	Spence, Becoming Jane Austen
		Jon Spence’s Becoming Jane Austen is one of the best half-dozen books published on Austen in the last quarter century, at least.
		His interpretation of Jane Austen’s character and personality as well as of her fiction impresses the reader with his long and intimate acquaintance with the writer and her works.
		Keen-eyed girl that she was, Jane Austen immediately commemorated the event in “Henry and Eliza,” her send-up of the exploits of her flirtatious cousin.
	www.jasna.org /bookrev/br193p23.html (739 words)

	Becoming Jane Austen by Jon Spence : Booksamillion.com (1852853948, Hardcover)
		Jane Austen was a very great novelist and one of the central figures of English literature, but she herself lived a quiet and uneventful life, mostly in the two Hampshire villages of Steventon and Chawton.
		Becoming Jane Austen shows how Jane Austen's own personal experiences resonated throughout her work, from her juvenilia to Sanditon.
		The second was the young Irish lawyer Tom Lefroy, with whom Jane fell in love and whom she hoped to marry.
	www.booksamillion.com /ncom/books?pid=1852853948 (227 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : At Leisure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		London, April 6: Screen adaptations of Jane Austen’s novels have become as common as Star Wars sequels but now the author’s own life is to be the subject of a film.
		It is Jane Austen in love, something you’ve never seen before, a complete departure from the usual oblique portrait of her as a spinster.”
		Becoming Jane stars Anne Hathaway, seen recently in Brokeback Mountain, as the author, and James McAvoy, star of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, as her young Irish beau.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1060407/asp/atleisure/story_6068639.asp (335 words)

	Chat with Jane
		Jane is an automaton (in the least strict sense).
		These goals included improving her quasi-human conversation to possibilities of Jane becoming an affable, spontaneous, all-around expert - in other words, more of a know-it-all and less of a chatterbox.
		Since I first had Jane up and running I've been busy and she hasn't evolved much.
	www.conleyread.net /en_us/play/jane.htm (119 words)

	Tuned In: 'Ambulance Girl' avoids the cliches (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Based on the 2003 memoir by Jane Stern, a noted pop culture connoisseur along with her husband, Michael, "Ambulance Girl" chronicles Jane's mid-life crisis that rocked her marriage and led her from a career in writing ("Roadfood," "Encyclopedia of Pop Culture") and talking ("The Splendid Table" on NPR) to working as an emergency medical technician.
		Jane is not a victim, and Bates manages to find humor even in aspects of her mid-life dilemma, giving the film a sense of whimsy (occasionally too much in some fantasy sequences) along with the expected melodrama.
		As she's becoming more comfortable with her new life and newfound freedom, their professional life is falling apart as well as their relationship, so there's a real shift at the end."
	www.post-gazette.com /pg/05252/568112.stm (850 words)

	Business Travel
		Jane was about to reprimand her daughter for being so rude but before she could, Daria, smiling, nodded and said, "I guess so.
		Later that evening Daria and Jane were sitting in the living room talking when Jenny came in wearing her pajamas.
		Standing alone in the room, Jane looked out the window to see if the car was still in sight then switched off the porch light and went to her room.
	www.the-wildone.com /fanfics/ma_fics/bt.htm (2105 words)

	AustenBlog . . . she’s everywhere » BECOMING JANE script report–from one who has read it
		I have been meaning to post here because I read Kevin Hood’s screenplay “Becoming Jane” a year or so ago, and wanted to report on it as there has been so much speculation about the script, but needed to find time to reread it first.
		There is invention galore: Eliza is more involved in the Lefroy matter than she could really have been (but why not bring her in); and there are scenes such as a sneaking-away to Astley’s and a meeting with Ann Radcliffe that are purely imaginary, but fun.
		Frankly, if they had to pick one of Jane’s novels to project onto her life, Persuasion makes more sense to me…but as Elizabeth Jenkins wrote, Jane was not Anne Elliot, because Anne Elliot could not have written Pride and Prejudice.
	www.austenblog.com /archives/2006/04/21/becoming-jane-script-report-from-one-who-has-read-it (2815 words)

	Amazon.com: Becoming Jane Austen: Books: Jon Spence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		He says of Jane's letters, "She takes the most ordinary, insignificant bits of information and effortlessly enlivens them with wit and fresh turns of phrase"--an apt summary of the appeal of her fiction.
		If you adore Jane Austen's novels but aren't really excited about reading a biography or a collection of her letters, this is the book to get.
		Spence broadens that view and does an excellent job of presenting Jane in the context of her wide circle of family and friends.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1852853948?v=glance (1337 words)

	Noyes June 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		I was to welcome Jane and guide the church—the best I could—in receiving her as God's beloved child.
		The whole church would literally be facing Jane, because the choir sits in the balcony behind the pulpit, facing the congregation.
		On the contrary, it was folks my age, and specifically those who went to school with Jane (when she was Jim), who were most uncomfortable.
	www.ccojubilee.org /alumnifolder/noyes/noyes0601.html (787 words)

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