Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930.
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death | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
died of tuberculosis, six days after her husband
embarked on an expedition to look for the Northwest Passage. Porden, Eleanor Anne. John Franklin’s Bride. Editor Gell, Edith M., First, John Murray, 1930. 305 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Frances Mary Peard | FMP
's father, George Peard
, was a naval officer who rose to the position of commander, and the son and grandson of Devon naval men. He had married Frances Mary's mother in 1823 and... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Anne Porden | After entertaining serious doubts, EAP
finally married John Franklin
, at 55 Devonshire Street, in the house where she was born. The old Dictionary of National Biography gave the date of the wedding as... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Anne Porden | Although EAP
was not beautiful—indeed, Mary Russell Mitford
(no beauty herself) remarked on her ugliness— L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 121 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Eleanor Anne Porden | It is clear that Franklin
, a naval captain by profession and Arctic explorer by avocation, must have been in love before his 1819 trip to the Arctic, on which he named the Porden Islands... |
Friends, Associates | Charlotte Barnard | Henry Alington Pye was a friend of James Franklin
, brother of Sir John Franklin
, the famous Arctic explorer. Smith, Phyllis. The Story of Claribel. J. W. Ruddock & Sons Ltd., Lincoln, 1965. 5, 8 |
Material Conditions of Writing | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
addressed a letter on the subject of Bread to the editor of the Sun in about 1817. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages. 16-17 |
Reception | Eleanor Anne Porden | Mary Russell Mitford
was given this poem to review by Whittaker
; it was then that she met EAP
. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 121 |
Textual Features | Annie Keary | The shadows fall on Alice Earle on the eve of her wedding to her beloved Sebastian, when her best friend, Ruth Brandon, comes to ask her help in rescuing her brother, Frederick Brandon, from the... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | EAP
wrote, in disguised handwriting, a Valentine to John Franklin
under the title The Esquimaux Girl's Lament. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages. 97-8 |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | These mixed attitudes, opposition from John Franklin
, her declining health and early death, must be variously to blame for her not issuing a collected edition of her poems, as she clearly planned to do... |
Textual Production | Eleanor Anne Porden | While engaged to John Franklin
, EAP
was planning to write a biography of her architect father, but it seems that some combination of marriage, motherhood, and declining health prevented her from carrying this project through. Porden, Eleanor Anne, and Edith M. Gell. “Letters: 1821-1824”. John Franklin’s Bride, John Murray, 1930, p. various pages. 104 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Margaret Atwood | She looks at what she calls the Grey Owl
Syndrome—the envy and appropriation by white writers of native identity; at the web of stories surrounding the last expedition of Sir John Franklin
; and... |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Sheenagh Pugh | Of the two sequences, Fanfic presents a fictional character—lean, cool, charismatic, deadly star of a series—whom a woman imagines with such intensity as almost to make him real. She fantasizes that if she believes in... |
Travel | Eleanor Anne Porden | Married for fifteen months, EAP
and her husband
were staying at Vale Cottage in Tunbridge Wells, no doubt for the benefit of her health. L’Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingham, editor. The Friendships of Mary Russell Mitford as Recorded in Letters from Her Literary Correspondents. Hurst and Blackett, 1882, 2 vols. 1: 155-6 |
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