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A Great Task Of Happiness: The Life Of Kathleen Scott
We meet the two extraordinary wives of Sir John Franklin, the first of whom, Eleanor, was a prolific poet with an interest in both art and science:. Eleanor died of tuberculosis shortly after Franklin departed on one of his early trips to the Arctic.
A few years later Sir John married Jane Griffin, who propelled him — there can be no other word for it — into the annals of history, while managing to live a life of scandalous excitement herself. She reminds me a little of Isabella Bird , half-shocked at her own daring, travelling alone and quite recklessly wherever the whim took her. Her hope was never fulfilled. And then there was Josephine Peary, who, on their first meeting, felt her husband-to-be looked so ancient that she introduced him to her mother, thinking that they would have more in common.
I think, out of all the women described here, Jo Peary had the biggest challenges to overcome. She even stood by him when it was discovered that he had fathered a child by an Inuit woman, but her letters speak of a heart wrung out with tears and exhaustion. My heart goes out to her.
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One of the women, admittedly in a more recent decade, managed to forge a career alongside that of her husband, and in doing so she found her own spiritual path. In the s Marie Herbert, who had once laughed that the Arctic would be the last place on earth that she would visit, found herself living with families there, first in the company of her husband Wally, and then on her own mission to learn about the culture of Inuit and Lappish people.
She became a best-selling author, and when tragedy visited her life she opened her soul to native American Indians and found solace and wisdom.
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The glamour of Arctic exploration is stripped away, and in its place are real people with human emotions, struggling to fulfil their dream while earning enough money to support their family. A common thread in all the partnerships is the yearning that each had for the other throughout the prolonged separations. An exception to this, on the surface at least, is Kathleen Bruce.
While her husband, Robert Falcon Scott, was away in the Antarctic, she threw herself into her busy social life with passion and vigour. She travelled, danced, partied, talked, worked. Throughout her young life she had yearned for a baby, and in Scott she knew she had found the right father. She was running away from sadness, and in seeking the sunshine she became it.
For myself, so many thoughts and interests have been provoked by this one book. The spirit of these incredible women is both moving and inspiring, and their stories offer an insight into the hearts of their husbands as if through a newly-discovered window. I will not. I regret nothing but his suffering.
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