# Jane — Suspiria de Profundis character guide

> Jane in Suspiria de Profundis by Thomas De Quincey.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** little Jane

**First appearance:** 0003-the-affliction-of-childhood

## Who they are

A young girl from the narrator's childhood memories.

## In the story

### [The Affliction of Childhood](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/the-affliction-of-childhood)

Jane is the narrator's deceased sister, whose death and memory drive the chapter's emotional and philosophical explorations.

### [The Palimpsest of the Human Brain](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/the-palimpsest-of-the-human-brain)

The young girl who nearly drowned and experienced a vision of her entire past life.

### [Memorial Suspiria](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/memorial-suspiria)

The timid cousin of sixteen who feels the tragedy deeply but is too shy to offer intellectual sympathy.

### [Who Is This Woman That Beckoneth and Warneth Me from the Place Where She Is, and in Whose Eyes Is Woeful Remembrance? I Guess Who She Is](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/suspiria_de_profundis_se/chapters/who-is-this-woman-that-beckoneth-and-warneth-me-from-the-place-where-she-is-and-in-whose-eyes-is-woeful-remembrance-i-guess-who-she-is)

Referenced indirectly through the memory of a sister's coffin and the 'heavenly beauty which slept side by side within my sister’s coffin in the month of June.'

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