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| Named Person: | Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography, Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Larry E Tise |
| ISBN: | 0271020342 9780271020341 0271020350 9780271020358 |
| OCLC Number: | 42771743 |
| Notes: | Papers of the annual Franklin symposium, held in May 1994 at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia and co-sponsored by the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial and the Friends of Franklin, Inc. |
| Description: | xxxi, 184 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Principal women in the life of Benjamin Franklin: a biographical glossary -- Chronology of Benjamin Franklin's encounters with women -- Introduction: Benjamin Franklin and the world of women -- Family partnerships: the working wife, honoring Deborah Franklin / Sheila Skemp -- Liberty and the rights of women: Sarah Franklin's declaration of independence / Larry E. Tise -- Three women, three styles: Catharine Ray, Polly Hewson, and Georgiana Shipley / Claude-Anne Lopez -- Sex and the married man: Benjamin Franklin's families / Jan Lewis -- Petitioning with the left hand: educating women in Benjamin Franklin's America / Mary Kelley --Franklin, women, and American cultural myths / Carla Mulford -- Salons and power in the era of revolution: from literary coteries to epistolary enlightenment / Susan Stabile. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Larry E. Tise. |
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