Sir John Franklin

EAP died of tuberculosis, six days after her husband embarked on an expedition to look for the Northwest Passage.

After entertaining serious doubts, EAP finally married John Franklin , at 55 Devonshire Street, in the house where she was born.

Although EAP was not beautiful—indeed, Mary Russell Mitford (no beauty herself) remarked on her ugliness—she was courted by many men. She turned down all proposals of marriage on the grounds that she...

It is clear that Franklin , a naval captain by profession and Arctic explorer by avocation, must have been in love before his 1819 trip to the Arctic, on which he named the Porden Islands...

FMP 's father, George Peard , was a naval officer who rose to the position of commander, and the son and grandson of Devon naval men. He had married Frances Mary's mother in 1823 and...

Henry Alington Pye was a friend of James Franklin , brother of Sir John Franklin , the famous Arctic explorer.

EAP addressed a letter on the subject of Bread to the editor of the Sun in about 1817. She wrote remarkably honest and self-scrutinizing personal letters to John Franklin during their courtship. Edith Gell

Mary Russell Mitford was given this poem to review by Whittaker ; it was then that she met EAP .Alexander Dyce named Coeur de Lion as EAP 's best work. When she...

The shadows fall on Alice Earle on the eve of her wedding to her beloved Sebastian, when her best friend, Ruth Brandon, comes to ask her help in rescuing her brother, Frederick Brandon, from the...

EAP wrote, in disguised handwriting, a Valentine to John Franklin under the title The Esquimaux Girl's Lament.

These mixed attitudes, opposition from John Franklin , her declining health and early death, must be variously to blame for her not issuing a collected edition of her poems, as she clearly planned to do...

While engaged to John Franklin , EAP was planning to write a biography of her architect father, but it seems that some combination of marriage, motherhood, and declining health prevented her from carrying this project through.

She looks at what she calls the Grey Owl Syndrome—the envy and appropriation by white writers of native identity; at the web of stories surrounding the last expedition of Sir John Franklin ; and...

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...

Married for fifteen months, EAP and her husband were staying at Vale Cottage in Tunbridge Wells, no doubt for the benefit of her health.