Franklin, Benjamin, 1706-1790 Women > United States > Social conditions > 18th century. but one of the surviving letters of Benjamin Franklin were to his sister Jane. The Harvard historian has spent years, off and on, researching the life of the little-known Mecom, who was the closest person to her iconic brother, exchanging letters with him for 63 years. The book description for Letters of Benjamin Franklin and Jane Mecom is. Jill Lepore is writing a book to bring her back. Search for related items by subject Subject: Jane Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s younger sister and closest confidante, died in 1794. After arriving in Philadelphia on May 5, 1775, after a long stay in England, Benjamin Franklin was informed by John Adams that his sister had safely made it to Warwick. 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. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) was a statesman, author, publisher, scientist, inventor, diplomat, a Founding Father and a leading figure of early American history. 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. 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. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator.

'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.

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