He had seen pictures of white women in the books, but the reality was the difference between the promise of the kingdom of heaven and its actual coming. The effect on Tarzan was intoxicating, writes Farmer. Her white Melton-cloth walking skirt was ankle-length and flared out at the bottom with a graduated flounce.' This with the swelling-posterior skirt, gave her whole figure a peculiar broken appearance. She wore a white pith helmet and a white ladies' waist of taffeta silk with a high standing collar and the front tucked over. She was strikingly beautiful, had long yellow hair, which fell to her waist when unpinned (in contrast to brunette Maureen O'Sullivan) had bluish-grey eyes, and was left-handed.

He describes Jane as a 'tomboy' who had traveled on her father's previous scientific expeditions and therefore was 'tough and strong-minded.' After arriving in Africa, Farmer writes of Jane: 'The 19-year-old girl who stepped off the boat was Jane Porter. 1, 1890, birth of their daughter Jane Porter.įarmer also says that the Porters were related to Cecil Calvert, second Baron of Baltimore, 'who founded the colony of Maryland,' and though the 'relationship was somewhat thinned by time and distance,' they kept in communication with their aristocratic antecedents. Lee and descended from Light-Horse Harry Lee). The professor was in his late 40s when he married Jane Carter Lee of Richmond, Va. Thus, his earliest American ancestor was a New Englander who left to settle near Baltimore.' Porter, who was called 'Ark' by his close friends, was 'a history and theology teacher in the Women's College of Baltimore, Maryland, established by the Methodist Church in 1885 and now known as Goucher College.

Shoken points to Philip Jose Farmer's 1972 book, 'Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke,' which created mini-biographies of the book's characters. Though Tarzan saves her from an uncertain fate, the newspaper observed: 'The ape would have been preferable to another alternative that faced her - marriage to a rich and stuffy Baltimorean.' In the book Jane speaks of him as a fool, although he wants to plunge into the forest and die with his daughter after she has been kidnapped by a bull ape.' Burroughs forgot to mention which Baltimore academy he graced). He was absent-minded Professor Archimedes Q. Since 'Tarzan of the Apes' was first made into a silent film starring Elmo Lincoln in 1918, more than a dozen other actors have portrayed the tree-swinging ape, including Johnny Weissmuller, perhaps the most popular, whose mate, Jane, was played by Maureen O'Sullivan.Ī 1966 article in The Evening Sun said, 'Jane was, moreover (perhaps still is) as contemptuous as a collegiate demonstrator of her dear old dad. In the recent animated incarnation of the jungle love tale, the voice of Jane is that of actress Minnie Driver, who sounds veddy English with nary a trace of a Bawlmer accent.

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