Jenny Cornelius: Difference between revisions

== Biography ==

When asked how she and Cornelius had met, [[Laura Drake (The Folly of Men)|Laura Drake]] couldn't exactly recall, explaining that they “must have run into each other at something, early on” and had subsequently “[seen] each other off and on for a while”. Eventually, around 1958, she suggested they go somewhere together out of the blue. After Laura declined “a marathon ride on the Tube”, driving through the countryside in Jenny's [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mini Mini], or travelling to “far-away, fantastical lands, wondrous imaginary places only found in the wildest fantasies? [[Neverland]]! [[Tir na Nog]]! [[Oz]]! [[France]]!”, Cornelius settled on an idea without telling her what it was, and drove her at to [[Liverpool]] to see [[the Quarrymen]] play, the significance of which was entirely lost on Laura at the time. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[How Jenny First Met… (short story)|How Jenny First Met…]]'')

After being one of the versions of Jenny summoned by [[Universe F (Paying It Forward)|one world]]'s [[Jenny Everywhere 6 (Paying It Forward)|Jenny]] to help spook a [[Sandy-haired man (Paying It Forward)|sandy-haired man]] who'd gotten on the bad side of the local Jenny and apparently did not believe her claims of being a multi-dimensional entity, ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'') she later joined the afterparty with twenty or so other Jennies. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Paying It Forward (novel)|Paying It Forward]]'', ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'') She bickered at length with [[Jeanne Partout (Paying It Forward)|Jeanne Partout]], a version of Jenny who was as emphatically French as Jenny Cornelius was English, with [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|the “Kim's friend” Jenny]] doing what she could to keep the level of acrimony subdued. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Morning After (novel)|Morning After]]'')

She was acquainted with “a very special person in the book trade” whom she described as “very polite, handsome, well dressed, and gay as a tree full of monkeys”, going by the name of “[[Aziraphale#In Jenny Cornelius's world|Mr Fell]]”. His shop was located “on [[Greek Street]] just off [[Old Compton Street|Old Compton]]”. On one occasion, he gave Jenny an exceedingly rare book, ''[[Biggles Goes to Mars]]'', in exchange for her locating a copy of the ''[[Plasmanomicon]]'', which she'd been “over half of creation and a few other places tracking down”, for his personal collection. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Folly of Men (short story)|The Folly of Men]]'')

Later, Jenny Cornelius visited [[Universe (Parallax)|the universe]] of the [[Jenny Everywhere (Parallax Universe)|“Kim's friend” Jenny]], allegedly to help [[Santa Claus (Parallax Universe)|“the fat man”]] with his [[Christmas]] deliveries. When the “Kim's friend” Jenny went up to the roof to watch for the sleigh with [[Professor Awesome (Parallax Universe)|Professor Awesome]], she ended up getting a huge snowball-from-nowhere to the face, just before she and the Professor were both blown back by a sudden gust of wind. When they opened their eyes again, two presents had been left on the roof. Jenny, who knew Cornelius was to blame for the snowball, playfully vowed that she'd get even, shouting up at the sky. A little later, she travelled to Cornelius's world, and found her counterpart out on a date in Soho with Laura Drake. With no further preamble, the visiting Jenny dropped a fistful of snow down her other self's back, giggling that “turnabout [was] fair play”. After a moment's confused flailing, Jenny Cornelius admitted as much and pulled the other Jenny into a big hug. Laura was rather confused about all this, asking if the “other Jenny” was some kind of a relative, but her good manners prevailed upon her common sense and she asked the other Jenny if she wants to join their day out on the town. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Watch the Skies (short story)|Watch the Skies]]'')

At some later point, driving back to London after some excursion in the [[Mod Rod]], Jenny dropped by her “favourite bookseller”. He was not in himself, but she stumbled upon his [[Crowley#In Jenny Cornelius's world|Crowley]], who tipped her off about some cultists in [[Slough]] worshipping an entity calling itself the [[Tenth Lord Grell]]. Jenny phoned Laura and found that the Intelligence Taskforce were indeed aware of this cult: in fact, based on a notion that a young woman would be “inconspicuous”, which Laura found rather patronising, they had assigned Laura herself to go investigate. Laura unsuccessfully tried to convince Jenny to stay out of Slough.