Stephen, Sir Leslie, and Sidney Lee, editors. The Dictionary of National Biography. Smith, Elder, 1908–2024, 22 vols. plus supplements.
Jane Lady Franklin
Standard Name: Franklin, Jane,,, Lady
Used Form: Jane Griffin
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| death | Eleanor Anne Porden | This expedition was not his fateful one: he returned to England in 1827, and on 5 November 1828 married his second wife, Jane Griffin
. |
| Friends, Associates | Eliza Lynn Linton | She had, however, a delight in meeting and observing people with cultural capital. Other acquaintances included James Anthony Froude
, writer; Jane, Lady Franklin
(widow of the Arctic explorer, and a traveller in her own... |
| politics | Emily Faithfull | The central concern of this society was educational and industrial reform; papers presented and discussed at the VDS meetings dealt not only with every aspect of women's work but also with sundry political, social and... |
| Textual Features | Sheenagh Pugh | SP
devotes a sequence of poems to European explorers who gave their names to geographical features in the Arctic. She is interested here in the romance of exploring, in character revealed by extreme conditions:... |
| Textual Features | 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... |
Timeline
19 May 1845-1848: John Franklin made his final, unsuccessful...
National or international item
19 May 1845-1848
John Franklin
made his final, unsuccessful attempt to discover the North-West Passage.
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.
II: 464
Williams, Neville. Chronology of the Modern World: 1763 to the Present Time. David McKay, 1967.
199
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