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Poor Richard's Women Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father Format: Paperback

Stuart, Nancy Rubin

Published by Penguin Random House (2023)

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Poor Richard's Women (Paperback)

Nancy Rubin Stuart

Published by Beacon Press, Boston, MA (2023)

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Book Description Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. "An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that's critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . 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. Poor Richard's Women reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England.Weaving detailed historical research with emotional intensity and personal testimony, Nancy Rubin Stuart traces Deborah's life and those of Ben's other romantic attachments through their personal correspondence. We are introduced to Margaret Stevenson, the widowed landlady who managed Ben's life in London; Catherine Ray, the 23-year-old New Englander with whom he traveled overnight and later exchanged passionate letters; Madame Brillon, the beautiful French musician who flirted shamelessly with him, and the witty Madame Helvetius, who befriended the philosophes of pre-Revolutionary France and brought Ben to his knees.What emerges from Stuart's pen is a colorful and poignant portrait of women in the age of revolution. Set two centuries before the rise of feminism, Poor Richard's Women depicts the feisty, often-forgotten women dear to Ben's heart who, despite obstacles, achieved an independence rarely enjoyed by their peers in that era. "Poor Richard's women describes Deborah's common-law marriage to Ben Franklin and his romances with other women"-- Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780807008126

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