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Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Subjects
Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
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Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
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Book of ages : the life and opinions of Jane Franklin / Jill Lepore.
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Lepore, Jill, 1966-
Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Call #:
973
.3092
F8312L
Subjects
Mecom, Jane, 1712-1794.
Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 -- Family.
Women -- United States -- Social conditions -- 18th century.
Boston (Mass.) -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780307958341 (hc.)
0307958345 (hc.)
Edition:
First Edition.
Description:
xiv, 442 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [327]-417) and index.
Contents:
Jane : 1537-1727 -- Her book : 1727-1757 -- Letters : 1758-1775 -- History : 1775-1793 -- Remains : 1794- -- Appendices. Methods and sources ; A Franklin genealogy ; A Jane genealogy ; A calendar of the letters ; The editorial hand of Jared Sparks ; Jane's library ; A map of Jane's Boston.
Summary:
"A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve. Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his sister spent her life caring for her children. They left very different traces behind. Making use of an amazing cache of little-studied material, including documents, objects, and portraits only just discovered, Jill Lepore brings Jane Franklin to life in a way that illuminates not only this one woman but an entire world--a world usually lost to history. Lepore's life of Jane Franklin, with its strikingly original vantage on her remarkable brother, is at once a wholly different account of the founding of the United States and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters: a life unknown"--Provided by publisher.
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Biographies.
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Woodlawn Public Library
Adult Biography
973.3092 F8312L
Adult books
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Oct 03, 2024
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Adult Biography
973.3092 F8312L
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Sep 26, 2024
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