As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: ‘For God’s sake look after our people.’ Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows: Kathleen, his own bohemian artist wife; Oriana, the […]
The women left behind by Scott’s Antarctic expedition
Anne Fletcher’s latest book, Widows of the Ice, “brings a new perspective to a story that we thought we already knew” by focussing on the three women widowed by Scott’s Antarctic expedition – and sidelined by its ‘heroic tragedy’ narrative. The idea for this book came when I was on holiday and thinking about the […]
Widows of the Ice by Anne Fletcher
As Captain Scott lay freezing and starving to death on his return journey from the South Pole, he wrote with a stub of pencil his final words: ‘For God’s sake look after our people.’ Uppermost in his mind were the three women who would now be widows: Kathleen, his own bohemian artist wife; Oriana, the […]