Ask the Author: Erika Behrisch Elce
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Erika Behrisch Elce
Oooo! I have two big projects: an academic book about nineteenth-century Admiralty administrators - the desk jockeys behind the big expeditions - and a novel about a fictional voyage set in the 1840s. Things go wrong. I can't say more.
Erika Behrisch Elce
I end up feeling kind of angry about a historical silence, and think that there's a voice in that slip that deserves some public space.
Erika Behrisch Elce
I got inspired to write Lady Franklin of Russell Square after getting basically buried under the mountain of historical (and fictional) accounts of the men and the ships of the Franklin Expedition. There are other stories to tell about the tragedy, and I wanted to consider the domestic side of what happened when the ships disappeared.
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