Fan Casting Admiral Jane Roland in Temeraire (Series)

‘“Jane,” Laurence said, “will you marry me?” “Why, no, dear fellow,” she said, looking up in surprise from the chair where she was drawing on her boots. “It would be a puzzle to give you orders, you know, if I had vowed to obey; it could hardly be comfortable. But it is very handsome of you to have offered,” she added, and standing up kissed him heartily, before she put on her coat.’ Captain of the longwing acid spitter, Excidium, Admiral of the Aerial Force stationed at Gibraltar, mother of Emily Roland.