Arctic circles: circuits of sociability, intimacy and imperial knowledge in Britain and North America, 1818-1828

• Main Author: Jacobs, A
• Other Authors: Edmonds, P, Nettlebeck, A
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2018
• Subjects: exploration; women; indigenous peoples; collecting; trauma; Arctic; Great Bear Lake; Indian; North Pole; Parry
• Online Access: https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27388/; https://eprints.utas.edu.au/27388/1/ARCTIC%20CIRCLES,%20Final%20Draft.docx

In 1827, a thirty-six year old spinster named Jane Griffin was pulled aside by her brother-in-law in a London drawing room. As she noted in her diary, Mr. Simpkinson “asked if I had succeeded in meeting Captain F. [Franklin] in arctic circles, that being the report, & whether some cape or bay wa...