In this volume, award-winning poet Elizabeth Anne Socolow speaks in various personas to tell of the lives of three women, two of the nineteenth and one of the twentieth century: Lady Jane Franklin, whose husband John attempted to find the Northwest Passage; Margaret Fuller, American Transcendentalist and the first foreign correspondent for the Herald Tribune under Horace Greeley; and Mary Lee Ware (a Cabot on her mother's side), who oversaw the making, in Dresden, of the famous glass flowers now in the Natural History Museum at Harvard University.