![]() She was, perhaps, the best-traveled woman of an era when women abided at home. Although she was born before the reign of Queen Victoria (1837 - 1901), Lady Jane Franklin grew to epitomize many aspects of upper class Victorian womanhood and, yet, she contradicted them as well. ![]() The book's subject matter is equally fascinating. ![]() Lady Franklin's Revenge by award-winning Ken McGoogan is a brilliant and an infuriating book.īrilliant: Revenge is a superbly written biography that achieves the status of a 'page-turner' through the skill of its author and the thrill of its background: Arctic history. (Harper Collins), which was published in the Literary Review of Canada. The following is a book review I did of "Lady Franklin's Revenge: A True Story of Ambition, Obsession, and the Remaking of Arctic History" by Ken McGoogan. Archived Entry: "Lady Franklin's Revenge - book review" Archived Weblog Entry - : "Lady Franklin's Revenge - book review" ![]()
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