![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() 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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