For other uses, see Dodsworth (disambiguation)

Dodsworth is a satirical novel by American writer Sinclair Lewis first published by Harcourt Brace & Company in March 1929. Its subject, the differences between US and European intellect, manners, and morals, is one that frequently appears in the works of Henry James.

Plot summary[link]

Samual 'Sam' Dodsworth is an ambitious and innovative automobile designer, who builds his fortunes in Zenith, Winnemac. In addition to his success in the business world, he had also succeeded as a young man in winning the hand of Frances 'Fran' Voelker, a beautiful young socialite. While the book provides the courtship as a backstory, the real novel begins upon his retirement. At the age of fifty and facing retirement due to his selling of his successful automobile company (The Revelation Motor Company) to a far larger competitor, he sets out to do what he had always wanted to experience: a leisurely trip to Europe with his wife. His forty-one year old wife, however, motivated by her own vanity and fear of lost youth, is dissatisfied with married life and small town Zenith, wants to live in Europe permanently as an expatriate, not just visit for a few months to allow Dodsworth to visit some manufacturing plants looking for his next challenge. Passing up advancement in his recently sold company, Dodsworth leaves for Europe with Fran but her motivations to get to Europe become quickly known.

On their extensive travels across Europe they are soon caught up in vastly different lifestyles. Fran falls in with a crowd of frivolous socialites, while Sam plays more of an independent tourist. 'With his red Baedeker guide book in hand, he visits such well-known tourist attractions as Westminister Abbey, Notre Dame Cathedral, Sanssouci Palace, and the Piazza San Marco. But the historic sites that he sees prove to be far less significant than the American expatriates that he meets on his extensive journeys across Great Britain and continental Europe' ^[1] He eventually meets Edith Cortright, an expatriate American widow in Venice, who is everything his wife is not: self-assured, self-confident, and able to take care of herself. As they follow their own pursuits, their marriage is strained to the breaking point. Both Sam and Fran are forced to choose between marriage and the new lifestyles they have pursued. Fran is clearly Lewis' target here while Sam ambles along as a stranger in a strange land until the epiphany of getting on with his life hits him in the last act. Sam Dodsworth is a rare Lewis character: a man of true conviction and purpose. Purpose and conviction can be relied on significantly as the book (and film) concludes with the two main characters going in quite different directions.

Set from late 1925 to late 1927, the novel includes detailed descriptions of Sam and Fran's tours across Europe. In the beginning they leave their mid-Western hometown of Zenith, board a steam liner in New York and cross the Atlantic Ocean. Their first stop is England. They visit the sights in London and are invited by Major Clyde Lockert to join a weekend trip to the countryside. Later on, when Lockert has made an indecent proposal to Fran, they depart for Paris, where she soon engages in a busy social life and he takes up sightseeing. When Sam decides to go back to America for his college reunion in New Haven, Fran spends the summer months on the lakes near Montreux and Stresa, where she has a romance with Arnold Israel. Once Sam has picked her up in Paris, they agree to continue their travels together, touring France, Italy, Spain, Austria, Hungary and Germany. Their marriage comes to an end, when she falls in love with Kurt von Obersdorf in Berlin. Whereas she stays on with her new love, he criss-crosses Europe in an attempt to cope with his new situation. When Sam happens to run into Edith in Venice, she persuades him to accompany her on a visit to a village in the vicinity of Naples. As Fran's fiance calls off the wedding, Sam joins his former wife on her voyage back to New York. Only three days later he is back on the next ship to meet Edith in Paris.

The schematic itinerary of Sam and Fran Dodsworth's travels across Europe from late 1925 to late 1927

Adaptations[link]

The novel was adapted for the stage in 1934 by Sidney Howard and filmed in 1936 by William Wyler. It also provided the basis for a 1950 British television drama starring Ruth Chatterton and Walter Abel, and a 1995 musical adaptation that was staged in Fort Worth, Texas with Hal Linden and Dee Hoty.^[2]

References[link]

Walter Huston
in the trailer for The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Born	Walter Thomas Huston (1883-04-05)April 5, 1883 York County, Ontario, Canada
Died	April 7, 1950(1950-04-07) (aged 67) Hollywood, California, United States
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1924–50
Spouse	Rhea Gore (1904–1912) Bayonne Whipple (1915–1924) Ninetta Sunderland (1931–1950)
Children	John Huston (1906–1987)

Walter Thomas Huston^[1] ( /ˈwɔːltər ˈhjuːstən/; April 5, 1883^[1] – April 7, 1950) was a Canadian-born American actor. He was the father of actor and director John Huston and the grandfather of actress Anjelica Huston and actor Danny Huston.

Early life[link]

Huston was born in York County, Ontario,^[1] the son of Elizabeth (née McGibbon) and Robert Moore Huston, a provincial farmer who founded a construction company.^[2] He was of Scottish and Irish descent.^[3]

Career[link]

Huston began his Broadway career in 1924. Once talkies began in Hollywood, he achieved fame in character roles. His first major role was in 1929's The Virginian with Gary Cooper. He appeared in the Broadway theatrical adaptation of Sinclair Lewis's novel Dodsworth in 1934 and the play's film version two years later.

Huston remained busy throughout the 1930s and 1940s, both on stage and screen (becoming one of America's most distinguished actors); he performed "September Song" in the original Broadway production of Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938 (his grandaughter Anjelica Huston sang it on the May 7, 2012 episode of the NBC TV series "Smash"). Among his films are Abraham Lincoln (1930), Rain (1932), Gabriel Over the White House (1933), The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941), Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942), and Mission to Moscow (1943), a pro-Soviet World War II propaganda film as Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. He won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1948 for his role in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, which was directed by his son, John Huston. His last film was The Furies in 1950 with Barbara Stanwyck.

Along with Anthony Veiller, he narrated the Why We Fight series of World War II documentaries directed by Frank Capra.

Death[link]

He died in Hollywood from an aortic aneurysm, two days after his 67th birthday. Huston has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6626 Hollywood Blvd.

Filmography (with co-stars)[link]

• The Lady Lies (1929) with Claudette Colbert
• The Virginian (1929) with Gary Cooper
• The Virtuous Sin (1930) with Kay Francis
• The Bad Man (1930)
• Abraham Lincoln (1930)
• The Criminal Code (1931) with Constance Cummings and Boris Karloff
• The Beast of the City (1932) with Jean Harlow and Jean Hersholt
• Night Court (1932) with Lewis Stone and W S Van Dyke
• American Madness (1932) with Pat O'Brien
• Rain (1932) with Joan Crawford
• Kongo (1932) with Lupe Vélez and Virginia Bruce
• Gabriel Over the White House (1933) with Franchot Tone, C. Henry Gordon, and David Landau
• Ann Vickers (1933) with Irene Dunne
• Dodsworth (1936) with Ruth Chatterton, Mary Astor, and David Niven
• Rhodes of Africa (1936)
• The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941) with James Craig, Edward Arnold, and Anne Shirley
• Swamp Water (1941) with Walter Brennan and Anne Baxter
• The Maltese Falcon (1941) with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet
• The Shanghai Gesture (1942) with Gene Tierney
• Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney
• The Outlaw (1943) with Thomas Mitchell and Jane Russell
• Edge of Darkness (1943) with Errol Flynn and Ann Sheridan
• Mission to Moscow (1943)
• And Then There Were None (1945) with Barry Fitzgerald and June Duprez
• Dragonwyck (1946) with Gene Tierney and Vincent Price
• Duel in the Sun (1946) with Joseph Cotten, Gregory Peck, and Jennifer Jones
• The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt
• The Furies (1950) with Wendell Corey and Barbara Stanwyck

Academy Awards and nominations[link]

• 1937 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - Dodsworth
• 1942 - Nominated Best Actor in a Leading Role - The Devil and Daniel Webster
• 1943 - Nominated Best Actor in a Supporting Role - Yankee Doodle Dandy
• 1949 - Won Best Actor in a Supporting Role - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

See also[link]

Biography portal

• Canadian pioneers in early Hollywood

Further reading[link]

• John Weld. September Song – an intimate biography of Walter Huston". The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 1998.

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Walter Huston

• Walter Huston at the Internet Movie Database
• Walter Huston at the Internet Broadway Database

Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN
Lieutenant Governor of Van Diemen's Land
In office 5 January 1837 – 21 August 1843
Monarch	William IV Victoria I
Preceded by	Sir George Arthur
Succeeded by	Sir John Eardley-Wilmot
Personal details
Born	(1786-04-16)16 April 1786 Spilsby, Lincolnshire, England
Died	11 June 1847(1847-06-11) (aged 61) near King William Island, Canada
Spouse(s)	Eleanor Anne Porden & Jane Griffin
Military service
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	Royal Navy
Years of service	1800–1847
Rank	Rear-Admiral
Battles/wars	French Revolutionary Wars Napoleonic Wars

Rear-Admiral Sir John Franklin KCH FRGS RN (16 April 1786 – 11 June 1847) was a British Royal Navy officer and Arctic explorer. Franklin also served as governor of Tasmania for several years. In his last expedition, he disappeared while attempting to chart and navigate a section of the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic. The entire crew perished from starvation, hypothermia, tuberculosis, lead poisoning and scurvy, and the expedition's icebound ships were abandoned in desperation.^{[citation needed]}

Early life[link]

Franklin was born in Spilsby, Lincolnshire, in 1786 and educated at King Edward VI Grammar School, Louth. John Franklin was the ninth of twelve children. One of his sisters was the mother of Emily Tennyson. Franklin's father initially opposed his son's interest in a career at sea. However, Franklin was determined and his father reluctantly allowed him to go on a trial voyage with a merchant ship. This hardened young Franklin's resolve, so at the age of 14 his father secured him a Royal Navy appointment on HMS Polyphemus. Franklin was later present at a number of historic voyages and naval battles. These included the Battle of Copenhagen in 1801, an expedition to explore the coast of Australia on HMS Investigator with his uncle, Captain Matthew Flinders, a return to the Napoleonic Wars, serving aboard HMS Bellerophon at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, and he was at the Battle of New Orleans.

He accompanied Captain Dance on The East India Company's ship the Earl Camden, frightening off Admiral Linois at the Battle of Pulo Aura in the mouth of the straits of Malacca 14 February 1804.

1819: Franklin's first and second expeditions[link]

In 1818, Franklin, under the leadership of Commander David Buchan in the Dorothea, was given command of the Trent. They set sail from Spitsbergen, but due to pack ice they returned after six months.^[1]

In 1819, Franklin was chosen to lead an expedition overland from Hudson Bay to chart the north coast of Canada eastwards from the mouth of the Coppermine River.^[1] Between 1819 and 1822 he lost 11 of the 20 men in his party. Most died of starvation, but there was also at least one murder and suggestions of cannibalism. The survivors were forced to eat lichen and even attempted to eat their own leather boots. This gained Franklin the nickname of "the man who ate his boots".^[2]

1823: Marriage and third Arctic expedition[link]

In 1823, after returning to England, Franklin married the poet Eleanor Anne Porden. Their daughter, Eleanor Isabella, was born the following year. Eleanor (senior) died of tuberculosis in 1825, shortly after persuading her husband not to let her ill-health prevent him from setting off on another expedition to the Arctic. This expedition, a trip down the Mackenzie River to explore the shores of the Beaufort Sea, was better supplied and more successful than his last.

On 29 April 1829 he was knighted by George IV. On 5 November 1828 he married Jane Griffin, a friend of his first wife and a seasoned traveller who proved indomitable in the course of their life together. On 25 January 1836 he was made Knight Commander of the Royal Guelphic Order by King George IV. He was made a Knight of the Greek Order of the Redeemer as well.^[3]

1836: Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)[link]

Franklin was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Van Diemen's Land in 1836, but was removed from office in 1843. He did not endear himself with the local civil servants, who particularly disliked his humane ideals and his attempts to reform the Tasmanian penal colony. His wife, Jane, was quite liberated for a woman of her day, known for "roughing it" to the extent that an expedition had to be mounted after she and Franklin became lost in the wild. Such exploits further distanced the couple from "proper" society, and may have contributed to Franklin's recall. Nevertheless, he was popular among the people of Tasmania. He is remembered by a significant landmark in the centre of Hobart—a statue of him dominates the park known as Franklin Square, which was the site of the original Government House. On the plinth below the statue appears Tennyson's epitaph:

Not here! The white north hath thy bones and thou

Heroic sailor soul

Art passing on thine happier voyage now

Toward no earthly pole

His wife worked to set up a university, a museum and botanical gardens. The village of Franklin, on the Huon River, is named in his honour, as is the Franklin River on the West Coast of Tasmania, one of the better known Tasmanian rivers due to the Franklin Dam controversy.^[4][5]

1843 Visit to Victoria[link]

Shortly after leaving his post as Governor of Tasmania Franklin revisited a cairn on Arthur's Seat, a small mountain just inside Port Phillip Bay, that he had visited as a midshipman with Captain Matthew Flinders in April 1802.

On this trip he was accompanied by Captain Reid of The Briars and Andrew Murison McCrae of Arthurs Seat Station, now known as McCrae Homestead.^[6]

1845 Northwest Passage expedition[link]

Map of the probable routes taken by HMS Erebus and HMS Terror during Franklin's lost expedition.

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Legend

  Disko Bay (5) to Beechey Island (just off the southwest corner of Devon Island, to the east of 1), in 1845.

  Around Cornwallis Island (1), in 1845.

  Beechey Island down Peel Sound between Prince of Wales Island (2), to the west, and Somerset Island (3) and the Boothia Peninsula (4) to the east, to an unknown point off the northwest corner of King William Island, in 1846.

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Disko Bay (5) is about 3,200 kilometres (2,000 mi) from the mouth of the Mackenzie River (6).

Exploration of the Arctic coastal mainland after Franklin's second Arctic expedition had left less than 500 kilometres (311 mi) of unexplored Arctic coastline. The British decided to send a well-equipped Arctic expedition to complete the charting of the Northwest Passage. After Sir James Ross declined an offer to command the expedition, an invitation was extended to Franklin, who accepted despite his age (59). A younger man, Captain James Fitzjames, was given command of HMS Erebus and Franklin was named the expedition commander. Captain Francis Rawdon Moira Crozier, who had commanded HMS Terror during the Ross 1841–44 Antarctic expedition, was appointed executive officer and commander of HMS Terror. Franklin was given command on 7 February 1845, and received official instructions on 5 May 1845.^[7]

HMS Erebus at 370 long tons (380 t) and HMS Terror at 340 long tons (350 t) were sturdily built and were outfitted with recent inventions. These included steam engines from the London and Greenwich Railway that enabled the ships to make 4 knots (7.4 km/h) on their own power, a unique combined steam-based heating and distillation system for the comfort of the crew and to provide large quantities of fresh water for the engine's boilers, a mechanism that enabled the iron rudder and propeller to be drawn into iron wells to protect them from damage, ships' libraries of more than 1,000 books, and three years' worth of conventionally preserved or tinned preserved food supplies. Unfortunately, the latter was supplied from a cut-rate provisioner who was awarded the contract only a few months before the ships were to sail. Though his "patent process" was sound, the haste with which he had prepared thousands of cans of food led to sloppily-applied beads of solder on the cans' interior edges and allowed lead to leach into the food. Additionally, the water distillation system may have used lead piping and lead-soldered joints, which would have produced drinking water with high lead content.^[8] Chosen by the Admiralty, most of the crew were Englishmen, many from the North of England with a small number of Irishmen and Scotsmen.

The Franklin Expedition set sail from Greenhithe, England, on the morning of 19 May 1845, with a crew of 24 officers and 110 men. The ships travelled north to Aberdeen for supplies. From Scotland, the ships sailed to Greenland with HMS Rattler and a transport ship, Barretto Junior. After misjudging the location of Whitefish Bay, Disko Island, Greenland, the expedition backtracked and finally harboured in that far north outpost to prepare for the rest of their voyage. Five crew members were discharged and sent home on the Rattler and Barretto Junior, reducing the ships' final crew size to 129. The expedition was last seen by Europeans on 26 July 1845, when Captain Dannett of the whaler Prince of Wales encountered Terror and Erebus moored to an iceberg in Lancaster Sound.

It is now believed that the expedition wintered in 1845–46 on Beechey Island. Terror and Erebus became trapped in ice off King William Island in September 1846 and never sailed again. According to a note later found on that island, Franklin died there on 11 June 1847. To date, the exact location of his grave is unknown.

After two years and no word from the expedition, Franklin's wife urged the Admiralty to send a search party. Because the crew carried supplies for three years, the Admiralty waited another year before launching a search and offering a £20,000 reward for finding the expedition. The money and Franklin's fame led to many searches. At one point, ten British and two American ships, USS Advance and USS Rescue, headed for the Arctic. Eventually, more ships and men were lost looking for Franklin than in the expedition itself. Ballads such as "Lady Franklin's Lament", commemorating Lady Franklin's search for her lost husband, became popular.^[9] In the summer of 1850, expeditions including three from England as well as one from the United States joined in the search. They converged off the east coast of Beechey Island, where the first relics of the Franklin expedition were found, including the gravesites of three Franklin Expedition crewmen.

Statue of John Franklin in his home town of Spilsby

In 1854, the Scottish explorer Dr. John Rae, while surveying the Boothia Peninsula for the Hudson's Bay Company, discovered the true fate of the Franklin party from talking to Inuit hunters. He was told both ships had become icebound, the men had tried to reach safety on foot but had succumbed to cold and some had resorted to cannibalism.^[10] Rae's report to the Admiralty was leaked to the press, which led to widespread revulsion in Victorian society, enraged Franklin's widow and condemned Rae to ignominy. Lady Franklin's efforts to eulogise her husband, with support from the British Establishment, led to a further 25 searches over the next four decades, none of which would add any further information of note.^[10]

In the mid-1980s, Owen Beattie, a University of Alberta professor of anthropology, began a 10-year series of scientific studies known as the "1845–48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project", showing that the Beechey Island crew had most likely died of pneumonia^[11] and perhaps tuberculosis.^[12] Toxicological reports indicated that lead poisoning was also a possible factor.^[13][14] In 1997, more than 140 years after Dr. Rae's report, his account was finally vindicated; blade cut marks on the bones of some of the crew found on King William Island strongly suggested that conditions had become so dire that some crew members resorted to cannibalism.^[15] It appeared from these studies that a combination of bad weather, years locked in ice, disease including scurvy, poisoned food, botulism and starvation had killed everyone in the Franklin party.

In October 2009 Robert Grenier (a Senior Marine Archaeologist at Parks Canada) outlined recent discoveries of sheet metal and copper which have been recovered from 19th century Inuit hunting sites. Grenier firmly believes these pieces of metal once belonged to the Terror and formed the protective plating of the ship's hull.

A quote from the British newspaper The Guardian states the following:

"After studying 19th-century Inuit oral testimony – which included eyewitness descriptions of starving, exhausted men staggering through the snow without condescending to ask local people how they survived in such a wilderness – he believes the 19th-century official accounts that all the surviving expedition members abandoned their ice-locked ships are wrong. He believes both ships drifted southwards, with at least two crew remaining until the final destruction of their vessels. One broke up, but Inuit hunters arriving at their summer hunting grounds reported discovering another ship floating in fresh ice in a cove.

"They're not very strong on location or date," Grenier said. "They have all the space and time in the world, but what they reported seems quite clear."

The ship, probably the Terror, was very neat and orderly, but the Inuit descended into the darkness of the hull with their seal-oil lamps, where they found a tall dead man in an inner cabin. Grenier believes it was there they recovered the copper, which was more valuable than gold to them, and tools including shears from the ship's workshop with which to work it. Hauntingly, they also reported that one of the masts was on fire. Grenier wonders if what they saw was the funnel from the galley still smoking from a meal cooked that morning, before the last of Franklin's men disappeared from history.^[16]

Historical legacy[link]

Statue of John Franklin in London

For years after the loss of the Franklin party, the Victorian era media portrayed Franklin as a hero who led his men in the quest for the Northwest Passage. A statue of Franklin in his home town bears the blatantly false inscription stating "Sir John Franklin — Discoverer of the North West Passage". Statues of Franklin outside the Athenaeum in London and in Tasmania bear similar inscriptions. Although the expedition's fate, including the possibility of cannibalism, was widely reported and debated, Franklin's standing with the public was not diminished. The mystery surrounding Franklin's last expedition was the subject of a 2006 episode of the Nova television series Arctic Passage and a 2006 documentary "Franklin's Lost Expedition" on Discovery HD Theater. The expedition has inspired many artistic works including a famous ballad, Lady Franklin's Lament, a verse play by Canadian poet Gwendolyn MacEwen, a children's book, a short story and essays by Canadian author Margaret Atwood, and several novels, and is referenced in Canadian musician Stan Rogers' ballad Northwest Passage. There is also a direct reference to John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in the Irish-American group Nightnoise's album Something of Time, specifically in a track titled "The Erebus and the Terror". Additionally in 2007, a fictional account of the expedition was authored by Dan Simmons titled The Terror (ISBN 978-0-316-01744-2). Guitarist Bert Jansch and the band Pentangle (band) also interpreted the traditional song 'Lord Franklin'.

From 1954 to the introduction of decimal currency in 1966, Franklin's image appeared on the Australian £5 (five pound) note.

He is the namesake for the R/V Franklin, a research vessel built in Queensland. She currently flies the Swedish flag and serves in northern Europe.

The Franklin rose, developed by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, was named in his honour.^[17]

Sir Franklin was commemorated by several geographic names, including two islands in Antarctica and Greenland, Franklin Sound north of Tasmania and Franklin Strait in Arctic Canada, whereas his wife has given name to Lady Franklinfjord in Svalbard. The explorer was also remembered when one of Canada's Northwest Territories subdivisions was named the District of Franklin. Including the high Arctic islands, this jurisdiction was abolished when the Territories were divided in 1999. On 29 October 2009 a special service of thanksgiving was held in the chapel at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich, to accompany the rededication of the national monument to Sir John Franklin there. The service also included the solemn re-internment of the remains of Lieutenant Henry Thomas Dundas Le Vesconte, the only remains ever repatriated to England, entombed within the monument in 1873.^[18] The event brought together members of the international polar community and invited guests included polar travellers, photographers and authors and many descendants of Sir John Franklin and his men and the families of those who went to search for him, including Admiral Sir Francis Leopold McClintock, Rear Admiral Sir John Ross and Vice Admiral Sir Robert McClure among many others. This gala event, directed by the Rev Jeremy Frost and polar historian Dr Huw Lewis-Jones, celebrated the contributions made by the United Kingdom in the charting of the Canadian North and honoured the loss of life in the pursuit of geographical discovery. The Royal Navy was represented by Admiral Nick Wilkinson, prayers were led by the Bishop of Woolwich and among the readings were eloquent tributes from Duncan Wilson, chief executive of the Greenwich Foundation and H.E. James Wright, the Canadian High Commissioner.^[19][20] At a private drinks reception in the Painted Hall which followed this Arctic service, Chief Marine Archaeologist for Parks Canada Robert Grenier spoke of his ongoing search for the missing expedition ships.

Works about John Franklin[link]

Non-fiction[link]

• Franklin Saga Deaths: A Mystery Solved? National Geographic Magazine, Vol 178, No 3, Sep 1990.
• Beardsley, Martyn. Deadly Winter.
• Beattie, Owen, and Geiger, John (1989). Frozen in Time: Unlocking the Secrets of the Franklin Expedition. Saskatoon: Western Producer Prairie Books. ISBN 0-88833-303-X.
• Beattie, Owen and Geiger, John (2004). Frozen In Time: The Fate of the Franklin Expedition (Revised edition)
• Berton, Pierre The Arctic Grail.
• Coleman, E. C. (2006). The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration, Franklin to Scott.
• Coleman, E. C. (2006). The Royal Navy in Polar Exploration, Frobisher to Ross. ISBN 0-7524-3660-0.
• Cookman, Scott (2001). Ice Blink: The Tragic Fate of Sir John Franklin's Lost Polar Expedition. ISBN 0-471-40420-9
• Hutchinson, Gillian (2009) "Searching for Franklin and the Northwest Passage". ISBN 978-0-948065-84-2.
• Joel, C. R. (2011) A Tale of Ambition and Unrealised Hope: John Montagu and Sir John Franklin. ISBN 978-1-921509-82-7
• Owen Beatle and John Geiger (1992) "Buried in ice: The mystery of a lost arctic expedition" ISBN 0-590-43849-2
• Lambert, Andrew (2009) Franklin: Tragic Hero of Polar Navigation. ISBN 978-0-571-23160-7.
• McGoogan, Ken Fatal Passage.
• McGoogan, Ken Lady Franklin's Revenge.
• Mirsky, Jeannette (1970). To the Arctic!: The Story of Northern Exploration from Earliest Times. ISBN 0-226-53179-1.
• Murray, David. (2004). The Arctic Fox: Francis Leopold McClintock, Discoverer of the fate of Franklin. Cork: The Collins Press, ISBN 1-55002-523-6.
• NOVA – Arctic Passage Part 1 – Prisoners of the Ice (TV documentary). See also program transcript.
• Payton, Brian (2009) The Ice Passage ISBN 978-0-385-66532-2
• Poulsom, Neville W. & Myres, J. A. L. (2000). British polar exploration and research : a historical and medallic record with biographies, 1818–1999 . London: Savannah.
• Sutton, Ann, and Myron Sutton. Journey into Ice; John Franklin and the Northwest Passage,. Chicago: Rand McNally, 1965.
• Stefánsson, Vilhjálmur (1938). Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic.
• Woodman, David C. Unraveling the Franklin Mystery: Inuit Testimony.

Fiction[link]

• The Discovery of Slowness, Sten Nadolny, Novel, 1983.
• The Rifles (novel), William T. Vollmann, Novel, 1994.
• The Terror (novel), Dan Simmons, Horror novel, 2007.
• The Broken Lands, Robert Edric, Novel, 1992
• The Ice Child, Elizabeth McGregor, Dutton, 3 May 2001
• Solomon Gursky Was Here, Mordecai Richler, 1989
• The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Jules Verne, 1864, a novel in which Captain Hatteras shows many similarities with John Franklin.
• The Voyage of the Narwhal, Andrea Barrett, Novel, 1998
• Arctic Drift, Clive Cussler, Novel, 2008.
• Wanting, Richard Flanagan, Novel, 2008.
• Heart of Darkness (novel), Joseph Conrad,1902. See paragraph 6 in any edition for thematic references to John Franklin.

Music[link]

• "Lady Franklin's Lament", Traditional Ballad
• "Northwest Passage", a modern ballad explicitly citing Franklin and others, is a staple of Canadian political discourse^[21][22]

References[link]

Further reading[link]

• Alexander, Alison (editor) (2005)The Companion to Tasmanian HistoryCentre for Tasmanian Historical Studies, University of Tasmania, Hobart. ISBN 1-86295-223-X.
• Robson, L.L. (1983) A history of Tasmania. Volume 1. Van Diemen's Land from the earliest times to 1855Melbourne, Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-554364-5

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: John Franklin

• Franklin and the North-West Passage Original reports from The Times
• NOVA's companion website for Arctic Passage
• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
• The Fate of Franklin (Russell Potter)
• The Life and Times of Sir John Franklin
• List of artefacts recovered from the Franklin Expedition
• Paper from the Universary of Calgary about the discovery of skeletal remains in 1992
• Works by John Franklin at Project Gutenberg
• Ottawa plans search for Franklin ships, Toronto Star, 14 August 2008.
• Search for Franklin from Frozen Ocean: Search for the North-west Passage

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Graham Dodsworth is a folklorist, performer of folk songs in Australia and an oral history interviewer for the National Library of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive.

Born in the Yallourn Hospital in Gippsland, Victoria, he lived his first five years in Moe after which his family moved to Vermont in the outer eastern suburbs of Melbourne where he attended Vermont Primary and Secondary Schools. Dodsworth moved to Hawthorn in 1969 and while attending Kew High School first heard Danny Spooner conducting workshops demonstrating attitudes to the industrial revolution in England, Transportation and other aspects of Australian history via folk song performance.

Dodsworth began a performance career in 1971 with performances at The Outpost Inn, Frank Traynors,^[1] The Dan O'Connel Hotel, and Fogarty's Union Hotel in Melbourne. In 2001 Dodsworth achieved a Master of Arts degree in Australian Studies from Monash University. His thesis is titled The Nature of Folk Song in Australia: Origins and Transmission. He was awarded the 2005 National Library of Australia National Folk Festival Fellowship culminating in a concert in the Budawang Theatre at the National Folk Festival and in the foyer of the National Library of Australia in 2005.^[2]

Graham Dodsworth demonstrated the results of the above mentioned fellowship research at the 2007 Conference of the Australasian Sound Recording Association which also explored representation and portrayal techniques by National Institutions.^[3]

Dodsworth's performance techniques include the use of DADGAD tunings for many of his arrangements of Australian folk songs. On his "In Good King Arthur's Day" cd for instance, only one song is in normal tuning four are in DADGAD and the rest in dropped D (DADGBE).

Graham has written many articles for the Australian Folklore Journal and his Master of Arts Thesis, The Nature of Folk Song in Australia, is available world-wide in paperback format.

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External links[link]

• National Library of Australia
• Australian National Film and Sound Archive
• Dodsworth, Graham. "The Nature of Folk Song in Australia: Origins and Transmission (for sale)". http://www.musicaustralia.org/apps/MA?function=showDetail&currentBibRecord=000024031458&itemSeq=&total=&returnFunction=getACopy&&reuseSearch=true&sessionId=. Retrieved 2012-04-30.