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Poor Richards Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father Audiobook, by Nancy Rubin Stuart Play Audiobook Sample

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

Poor Richards Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father Audiobook, by Nancy Rubin Stuart Play Audiobook Sample
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Read By: Ann M. Richardson Publisher: Beacon Press Listen Time: at 1.0x Speed 5.33 hours at 1.5x Speed 4.00 hours at 2.0x Speed Release Date: March 2022 Format: Unabridged Audiobook ISBN: 9780807010754

Quick Stats About this Audiobook

Total Audiobook Chapters:

17

Longest Chapter Length:

40:59 minutes

Shortest Chapter Length:

23 seconds

Average Chapter Length:

28:03 minutes

Audiobooks by this Author:

2

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Publisher Description

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, his common-law wife and partner for forty-four 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 twenty-three-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.

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