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

by Nancy Rubin Stuart

Book Overview

A 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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807011304
• ISBN13: 9780807011300
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.9" x 9.1"