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| |name= Joan Redfern | | |name= Joan Redfern |
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| |species=Human | | |species=Human |
| |origin= [[Earth]] | | |origin= [[Earth]] |
| |appearances= [[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]''/''[[The Family of Blood]]'' | | |only= Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature |
| |actor= Jessica Hynes | | |actor= |
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| | '''Joan Redfern''' was a science teacher at [[Hulton College]], near [[Farringham]] in [[Norfolk]]. She was [[Widow|widowed]] when her [[marriage|husband]], [[Arthur Redfern]], died in war. She gave her [[cat]] [[Wolsey]] to [[Bernice Summerfield]] following her encounter with the [[Seventh Doctor]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[Human Nature (novel)|Human Nature]]'') |
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| '''[[Matron]] Joan Redfern''', widow of [[Oliver Redfern]], was a nurse at [[Farringham School for Boys]], where [[John Smith (Tenth Doctor)|John Smith]] worked from [[September]] to [[November]] [[1913]].
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| == Biography ==
| | [[Category:Human science teachers|Redfern]] |
| Her husband, [[Oliver Redfern|Oliver]], died in the [[Boer Wars|Boer War]] at the [[Battle of Spion Kop]] in [[January]] [[1900]].
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| While at Farringham, John Smith fell in love with her. He showed her a journal in which he had written down his dreams, which were his adventures with Rose and Martha before he was human. After John Smith became the [[Tenth Doctor]] again, she asked him if he could change back into John. He said yes, but when she asked if he would he said no. When he asked her to join him as a [[companion]], she dismissed the idea immediately, saying that John Smith was dead and the Doctor just looked like him. She then asked the Doctor, "If you hadn't decided to come here on a whim, would any of these people have died?" He looked at her without answering. She dismissed him and, after he left, broke down, clutching John's journal.
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| In an alternative future viewed by John Smith and her, she became his wife. They had two children and a number of grandchildren as they lived long, happy lives together. ([[TV]]: ''[[Human Nature (TV story)|Human Nature]]'' / ''[[The Family of Blood]]'')
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| In the proper timeline, nearly one century later in the end of [[2009]] or Spring [[2010]], Joan's great-granddaughter [[Verity Newman]] published the Journal of Impossible Things as a true story told from Joan's perspective and told Joan's story to people wanting to purchase the book, so Joan would be remembered. She was visited by the Doctor before he regenerated into his [[Eleventh Doctor|eleventh incarnation]]. She said that, in the end, Joan was happy and asked if he was. The Doctor left without answering. ([[TV]]: ''[[The End of Time (TV story)|The End of Time]]'')
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