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| Genre/Form: | Biography |
|---|---|
| Named Person: | Jane Mecom; Benjamin Franklin; Benjamin Franklin; Jane Mecom |
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jill Lepore |
| ISBN: | 9780307958341 0307958345 |
| OCLC Number: | 825198044 |
| Description: | xiv, 442 pages : illustrations, map, facsimiles ; 25 cm |
| 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. |
| Responsibility: | Jill Lepore. |
Abstract:
"From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself. 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"--Publisher's description.
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