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The Lady Franklin Gallery and Ancanthe Park is a historic sandstone museum and 2.96-hectare (7.3-acre)[2] parkland in Lenah Valley, Tasmania, Australia.[3] When it opened on 26 October 1843, it became the first privately funded museum in Australia. The museum and parklands remained privately owned and in a state of disrepair until they were purchased by the Hobart City Council in 1921.[6] The Art Society of Tasmania located to the premises in 1949.[7] The Lady Franklin Gallery is designated on the Tasmanian Heritage Register.[8] The group further hoped to establish a Cultural Landscape and Historic Centre in the Vicinity of Ancanthe Park.[9] In 2014, author Alison Alexander, who won the National Biography Award for her book The Ambitions of Jane Franklin, Victorian Lady Adventurer opposed the subdivision of sixteen allotments of Ancanthe Park.[10] Since at least 2015, the Ancanthe parkland has been further subdivided, with allotments sold for housing development.

Undelivered letter from Lady Jane Franklin to her husband Sir John Franklin dated 30 Mar 1853 and a letter from W F Rawnsley, a relative of Lady Franklin, dated 3 Jun 1924. Jane Franklin (nee Griffin) was born in 1792 in London, daughter of John Griffin, a wealthy silk weaver, and Mary Guillemard. She was an early Tasmanian pioneer, traveller

Summary. Lady Jane Franklin was a social reformer, traveller, natrual history collector and enthusiastic promoter of science. She arrived in Hobart with her husband, Sir John Franklin, the newly-appointed Lieutenant- Governor of Van Deimen's Land [appointed in 1836, arrived January 1837]. John Franklin was relieved of his post in 1843, under a