Poor Richard's Women
Poor Richard's Women "An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing." --Library Journal, Starred ReviewA vivid portrait…
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Poor Richard's Women
"An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing." --Library Journal, Starred ReviewA vivid portrait of the women who loved, nurtured, and defended America's famous scientist and founding father.Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin--the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era--but not about his love life. Using a post-feminist lens that's critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . .
The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Poor Richard's Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their
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