![]() ![]() But few of the fictional women I visited with in those years had lives that would compare to Lady Jane Franklin's. Huge, towering stacks of them, I suspect. And when they died, as they often did at the end of the novels I favored, their deaths - and their lives - were remarked upon. The best of these heroines lived whole, complete lives, most often in defiance of the social rules of the times in which they lived. ![]() ![]() They calculated and sometimes miscalculated and the severity of their ends were often directly related to the results of these miscalculations. In that world, women had a strong, if sometimes dubious, place. I spent the quiet moments in the last few years of my girlhood deep in the thrall of historical novels. Review | Lady Franklin's Revenge by Ken McGoogan ![]()
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