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:''This is the page for the traveler, Jane Griffin. For the murderer, see [[Jane Griffin (murderer)]] |
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'''Jane Griffin''' ([[1791]] – [[18 July]] [[1875]]) was a [[Kingdom of Great Britain|British]] [[Victorian era]] traveller better known as '''Lady Franklin''', and the wife of explorer Sir [[John Franklin]], who disappeared in the [[Arctic]] in the [[1840s]] on an expedition to find the [[Northwest Passage]]. |
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Lady Franklin sponsored four expeditions to find her husband (in [[1850]], [[1851]], [[1852]] and finally in [[1857]]) and, by means of a sizeable reward for information about him, instigated many more. Her efforts made the expedition's fate one of the most vexed questions of the decade. Ultimately evidence was found by [[Francis McClintock]] in [[1859]] that Sir John had died twelve years previously in [[1847]]. Prior accounts had suggested that in the end the expedition had turned to [[cannibalism]] to survive, but Lady Franklin refused to believe these stories and poured scorn on explorer [[John Rae]], who had in fact been the first person to return with definite news of her husband's fate. |
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She had married Franklin in [[1827]], his second wife, and joined him on his posting to [[Australia]] as governor of [[Van Diemen's Land]], which she renamed [[Tasmania]] - this being something of a family tradition since the name 'Australia' had itself been popularised by Franklin's uncle, the explorer [[Matthew Flinders]]. In [[1839]] Lady Franklin became the first European woman to travel overland between [[Port Phillip]] and [[Sydney]], and then in 1841-42 she was the first European woman to travel from [[Hobart]] to [[Macquarie Harbour]]. |
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After his disappearance in [[1845]], she never saw her husband again; but the expeditions she supported added considerably to the geographical knowledge of the [[Arctic circle]]. In her later years she continued to travel. |
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== External links == |
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*[http://www.biographi.ca/EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=39133 Biography at the ''Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online''] |
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[[Category:1792 births|Griffin, Jane]] |
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[[Category:1875 deaths|Griffin, Jane]] |
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[[Category:Canadian historical figures|Griffin, Jane]] |
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[[Category:Women of the Victorian era|Griffin, Jane]] |
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