Jane Franklin
Books
- Erebus and Terror The Search for Franklin and the Evidence of the Ice · Liszt Think
In May 1845, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror sailed into Baffin Bay and vanished.
- A Distant and Frozen Sea…hat their men were well and professionally engaged. And they circulated more broadly as evidence of the expedition’s sound management. Lady Jane Franklin, the commander’s wife and most effective advocate, used them to counter any suggestion that her husband’s age or the haste of preparations…
- The Machinery of Unease…ation as efficiently as it swallowed ships. Each whaler’s report that found nothing added to a pattern that had no name, only absence. Lady Jane Franklin did not wait for official concern to crystallize. In April 1847, she wrote to the Hydrographer proposing that a small steamer be sent to La…
- The Comfort of Protocol…Admiralty issued periodic notices to the press, assuring the public that every possible exertion was being made for Franklin’s relief. Lady Jane Franklin, who had succeeded her predecessor as the expedition’s most persistent advocate, maintained a correspondence with the Board that grew in vo…