Jane Ellen Harrison

Jane Ellen Harrison 1850-1928, English classical scholar. She applied archaeological discoveries in the interpretation of Greek religion. Her works include Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1903), Themis (1912), Ancient Art and Ritual (1913), and Epilegomena to the Study of Greek Religion (1921).

Bibliography: See biography by J. G. Stewart (1959).

Addams, Jane (1860–1935) US social worker and reformer. With her friend Ellen Grates Starr, she opened Hull House in Chicago in 1889, a pioneer settlement house for workers and immigrants. A pioneer of the new discipline of sociology, she had considerable influence over the planning of neighbourhood welfare institutions throughout the country. She was a leader of the WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE movement and an active pacifist.

Alexander, Jane [neé Quigley] (b. 1939), actress. The tall, stately leading lady was born in Boston and educated at Sarah Lawrence College and the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. She was successful in regional theatre, particularly at the Arena Stage in Washington, before making her Broadway debut in 1968 as the white mistress Eleanor Bachman to the African‐American prizefighter Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope. Her subsequent roles in New York were as different as they were accomplished, including the apartment‐hunting New Yorker Anne Miller in 6 Rms Riv Vu (1972), the wife Jacqueline Harrison discovering her husband's homosexuality in Find Your Way Home (1974), the liberal Supreme Court Justice Ruth Loomis in First Monday in October (1978), the cancer victim Joy Davidman in Shadowlands (1990), the vengeful millionairess Claire Zachanassian in The Visit (1992), and the international banker Sara Goode dealing with romance and her Jewish heritage in The Sisters Rosensweig (1992). In the 1990s Alexander served as the chairwoman of the National Endowment for the Arts.