Editing Thursday Next (section)

==Biography==
Thursday is in her mid-thirties at the start of the first book, and, by the end of it, had married [[Landen Parke-Laine]].  Thursday juggles her work in Swindon and the world of fiction, battling the machinations of the insidious Goliath Corporation, members of the Hades family and other evils at every turn.

Her biographer and [[Stalker (Stalking)|stalker]], "Millon de Floss", reveals more about her life at the beginnings of chapters in ''[[The Eyre Affair]]'', ''[[Lost in a Good Book]]'', ''[[The Well of Lost Plots]]'' and ''[[Something Rotten (Fforde)|Something Rotten]]''.

Her father, Colonel Next, is a rogue member of the ChronoGuard (SpecOps 12), a temporal policing agency, and officially does not exist, having been eradicated by his former bosses (using the simple but effective method of a timely knock on the door just before his conception; despite this, his children and grandchild still exist, likely due to Thursday's son Friday Next being the eventual head of the ChronoGuard, and/or the extensive powers of Colonel Next himself). The elder Next does, however, remain at large throughout the time-space continuum, and still frequently finds time to visit Thursday, usually by stopping time around her so they can talk without his being arrested by the ChronoGuard. Colonel Next's first name is unknown to everybody but him, a consequence of his eradication. Thursday has two brothers, Anton, who died in the Crimean War, and Joffy, who is a minister for the Global Standard Deity (GSD).

Thursday also has a pet [[dodo]] called Pickwick. Although dodos had been extinct for some time, in Fforde's fictional universe they have been reintroduced through [[cloning]], a popular hobby. Pickwick was 12 years old in 1985, when ''[[The Eyre Affair]]'' was set, and has some unusual characteristics, including missing wings.  She is a version 1.2 dodo, and the DNA sequencing wasn't complete until the release of  version1.7. Although initially Thursday Next believed Pickwick to be male, she later turned out to be female when she laid an egg. Her noise is represented as "plock plock" in the books.

Around Thursday Next a fictional world was created, reflected on several websites of the fictional organisations.