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[[Image:Janezzzz.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jane enjoys O'Neill's class ("Daria Dance Party")]]
Early history about Jane's life that was revealed during the show is scarce, but there are a few facts that were confirmed
* She was, in her prepubescent years, a member of the Girl Scouts, during which time she was forced to attend a nature camping event, a memory she detests. ("[[Antisocial Climbers]]")
* When a young Trent was camping out in the backyard, an even younger Jane was the one delivering him food ("[[Lane Miserables]]")
* "[[Reburb]]" says she was [[Mystik Spiral]]'s Director of Band Graphics "until she got fed up with the whole spiral direction controversy" (i.e. whether the spiral was going in the right direction on the logo).
After starting at [[Lawndale High]], she was sent to the [[Self Esteem Class]]. She took the class seven times, allegedly to kill time - [[Timothy O'Neill|Mr. O'Neill]] didn't recognise her even on her seventh time. It was here she met [[Daria Morgendorffer]], reaching out when Daria challenged the teacher ("He doesn't know what it means").
[[Image:Jane with skull.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Planning for an installation ("The Old and the Beautiful")]]
Daria and Jane were close friends for the rest of high school and as far as we can tell, Daria was Jane's only previous friend. It would be Jane that would often push Daria into doing things, starting with encouraging her to go to [[Brittany Taylor]]'s party to people-watch in "[[The Invitation]]".
Both girls were unpopular outcasts, but in "[[See Jane Run]]" and "[[The F Word]]", it was shown Jane ''could'' be popular: first time from being good at sports, second in very easily getting onto the cheerleading team. The first time round, it's unclear if Jane was interested in the whole social part of being popular (but she definitely enjoyed the perks of being a star athlete). In "The F Word", Jane is genuinely rattled by how easy it was to get on the squad: "It was easy to fit in, too easy. Maybe I really am one of them. ... I have to face my demons, Daria. Maybe I'm not really an artist. Maybe those insipid pom-pom wavers know me better than I know myself." In the end, Jane chose to deliberately sabotage her tryout ("Cheer cheer cheer/Yell yell yell/Who cares who wins/We're all going to Hell!") to get out of the existential crisis so we'll never know how it could've gone.
At the age of 18, Jane graduated from Lawndale High and was accepted by [[Boston Fine Arts College]] into the midterm freshman class. Because the show ended before Jane actually began attending the college, her current status is ultimately unknown, but it is assumed that she still attends the college, socializing with Daria, who attends a college in the same city, on her free weekends. Whether she achieved her goal of losing her virginity the day she entered college is unknown.▼
Jane had her first serious romantic relationship at the age of 17 (or so fans estimate) with [[Tom Sloane]], the only son of a wealthy local family and then a student of [[Fielding Preparatory Academy]]. The relationship ended less than a year later when they both realized, amid the controversy over [[The Kiss|Tom kissing Daria]], that it had run its course - something both of them had tried to deny. Daria's betrayal was a bigger blow for her than Tom's, and she spent a chunk of that summer at [[Ashfield]] art retreat. Having to run into the snobs, egotists, and exploiters in the art world left her quite bitter, especially [[Alison]] who tried to manipulate her into having sex (Alison being older than Jane by a few years), but Jane decided to stick out the last fortnight at Ashfield anyway: "Some kind of dumb-ass notion about seeing this through."
Jane and Tom remain casual friends but are rarely shown talking in fifth-season episodes or the final movie, ''[[Is It College Yet?]]'', and when they do it's around Daria.
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[[Image:Jane20yl.jpg|right|frame|Jane in 2017, by Karen Disher]]
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"Daria's closest friend and confidante never gave up on her ambitions: She's a professional artist who's sold a few pieces, though she still hasn't "made it big." She lives in a loft in SoHo with her husband who's an archaeologist and rarely home, so luckily the besties get to spend tons of time together. They enjoy going to art shows and film events where you're supposed to socialize, but — surprise! — they only talk to each other."
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When Jane was applying for college, Trent took a passive-aggressive approach to it and referred to it as selling out; he later admitted he was just upset about losing Jane. She reassured him that just because she was moving out, it didn't mean he'd "get out" of being her brother. With her now in Boston, it is presumed that Trent is now living alone in the house but still with a firm loving relationship with his sister Jane.
==How much money does Jane have?==
Fandom has often assumed that Jane grew up poor, due to the state of her house, Trent's [[The Tank|decrepit van]] and recurring money troubles, and primarily a moment in "[[The Daria Diaries]]" where Daria records that she helped Jane barricade out the bank over a missed mortgage payment. Certainly, Jane does not have the same stereotypically upper-middle class home life Daria does. In "Art Burn", ''Jane'' has to raise the money for gazebo repairs because Trent has not a thing and isn't likely to have anything. Fandom has run with this, giving Jane a hard-scrabble life and increasingly comparing her with the more comfortable Daria.
On the other hand, Jane's parents are constantly on far-flung trips and in "[[The Daria Diaries]]" and "[[The Daria Database]]", the issue seems less they ''can't'' pay the mortgage and more they ''forget'' to. When it comes to college, Jane never implies that she might not be able to afford it, not even in "Is It College Yet?" (a plotline that does show up for [[Mack]]) and "[[College Bored]]" has Jane daydreaming about the money her parents have saved for higher ed. This would indicate the family does actually have money, but little of it is being spent on house maintenance or day-to-day things.
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