Jane Stewart

Jane Stewart, the cook and the coachman (The Strand Magazine, july 1893)

Fictional character.

In the Sherlock Holmes stories

• Jane Stewart was the housemaid in the Barclays' household "Lachine" (CROO 106).

• When she approached the morning-room door, she heard Colonel James Barclay and Nancy Barclay in furious altercation and finds the door locked (CROO 110).

• She reported hearing Nancy Barclay call the Colonel a "coward" repeatedly and demand, "Give me back my life." (CROO 115).

• She also remembered — when pressed by Sherlock Holmes — hearing Nancy Barclay say the name "David" twice, which becomes a key clue for Holmes (CROO 146).

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