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Name: Julianna Marie Hawthorne
Age: 23
Nationality: British

Profession: Innkeeper's (& pub) Widow

Skills: sharp tounged/ quick witted, reading, skilled with daggers (to stop unwanted advances), Flintlock (taught by her father)

History:
Julianna was born to an upper class family. Her father was involved in the anti-royal sentiments that led to the English civil war. When Charles II retook the throne in 1660, her family was in disgrace and left England. Being their only child, and due to this disgrace, her parents disguised Julianna as a boy and took on a new name to deter recognition. To enable this disguise Julianna was taught to read, write, and defend herself with daggers, and hunt with a flintlock.

After many favors and luck got her father involved in trade and eventually they ended up in Curacao around 1670, about time for Julianna to be married off at age 13. Now settled and out of the eyes of the English Royalty, her parents decided to make Julianna become a lady again (not to mention puberty forcing it).

They married her off to a wealthy business man in the area who was three times her senior. However, he fell into ruin after he lost a couple ships to a terrible storm. With the remaining wealth they had, he set up an inn/pub in the Port of Punda. Julianna with her unusual upbringing was able to handle this change and kept the patrons on their toes. Her husband died about 8 years later, leaving Julianna to run the place.

Now 1680, Julianna begins to tire of her life as innkeeper and the numerous marriage proposals and longs for some adventure. Continually contemplating doning her husbands old clothes, she dreams of the freedom young men enjoy that she only had a taste of in her youth.