Prisoners of the North
“From Portrait of Jane by Frances J. Woodward, Hodder and Stoughton, 1951—ONE—In September 1859, when Leopold M’Clintock’s little schooner Fox entered the English Channel from the mists of the Arctic labyrinth, Jane, Lady Franklin, hurried back from her mountain-climbing expedition in the Pyrenees to resume her role as one of the best known and most venerated women in England.Her husband’s fate and that of the 134 men he commanded in his search for the Northwest Passage had finally been establis...hed as a result of her own determined quest. Her twelve-year struggle to accomplish his rescue and, when that failed, to enshrine his memory as the greatest of all Northern explorers had touched off the most intense decade of Arctic exploration in history and caught the imagination of the world. It was now her purpose to ensure that posterity would hail him as the discoverer of the elusive Passage.In that determination she did not lack for supporters. “She now holds the highest position of any English woman,”MoreLess
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