Jane Hardy

Jane Hardy is the daughter of Captain John Hardy and his wife Frances, (d.1807).

She is an original character created by Rosie, and is currently retired from the game.

Family, Childhood and Marriage
Jane Hardy came into the world on a bleak January day in 1779, the first child of the then Lieutenant John Hardy and his wife Fanny (nee Hart).

Appearance
Standing at exactly five feet and seven, Jane is not the smallest of women when it comes to stature.

With plain brown hair, coaxed up into a simple fashion - she is not the most impressive of women. However, having been thought somewhat amiable in appearance during her youth, all such amiability disappeared on hitting her thirties.

Personality
In her youth, Jane was known as a hearty, witty woman. On hitting her thirties, and inevitably losing her looks, she now somewhat lacks the confidence she used to have in social situations, but instead uses her silent calculations to judge the worth of people.

On the other hand, Jane has a thin patience for wastrels and petty people. If she can help it, she steers clear of such people; but if paths cannot be taken to avoid them - she generally suffers a great deal in their presence.

Odds and ends
Jane is incredibly fond of her family. Adoring her father and young sister, she is truly a family oriented woman. However, being without a husband or children due to being widowed during the war, she has now resigned herself to keeping her family safe - despite being far from home.