TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lepore,Jill
TI  - Book of ages: the life and opinions of Jane Franklin 
SN  - 9780307948830
PY  - 2013///
CY  - New York
PB  - Vintage Books
KW  - Mecom, Jane,
KW  - Franklin, Benjamin,
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 18th century
KW  - Boston (Mass.)
KW  - Biography
N2  - A revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a wholly different account of the founding of the United States; "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
ER  -