Obscure beginnings, Jane, trapped by gender, starved of education, was not.

While Benjamin was able to forge a path to greatness from his The life of Jane, Benjamin Franklin’s gifted sister, confidante, and life-longĬorrespondent. However, Miles’ exceptional performance will also make women glad they live threeĪges is an ardently told life story, brimming with love and loss against aīackground of political strife and war. Show Jane’s devotion to her brother and his to her. Husband forced them to live with her parents. Twelve of her children died, and her marriage to a profligate Through correspondence between Jane and her brother, Benjamin Franklin.īecause Jane was Franklin’s youngest sister, listeners would suppose she Splendid performance, Robin Miles narrates this unusual story, told Look at how difficult life was in eighteenth-century America. Mecum, the subject of this well-done audiobook, gives listeners a rare 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. 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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