Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin's Letters to Madame Helvétius and Madame La Freté
Author: Benjamin FranklinBenjamin Franklin
Author: Christopher J. MurreyPublisher: Nova Publishers
ISBN: 9781590333846
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Benjamin Franklin is generally considered one of America's most versatile and talented statesmen, scientists, and philosophers. His achievements include publisher of Poor Richard's Almanac and many articles on political, economic, religious, philosophical and scientific subjects. He was the inventor of bifocals, the Franklin stove, lightening rod, he was one of the signers of the 'Declaration of Independence', and the founder of, what is now the University of Pennsylvania. This book presents a detailed and riveting review of Franklin's life based on excerpts from the renowned 1899 book on Franklin by Sydney George Fisher. This overview is augmented by a substantial selective bibliography, which features access through title, subject and author indexes.
Americana Collector
Author: Charles Frederick HeartmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 580
Book Description
The American Collector
Author: Charles Frederick HeartmanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Encyclopedia of Life Writing
Author: Margaretta JollyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136787445
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 1141
Book Description
First published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Poor Richard's Women
Author: Nancy Rubin StuartPublisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807011304
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
“An engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin . . . Using a post-feminist lens that’s critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity . . . This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.” —Library Journal, Starred Review 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 44 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 23-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.
The Publishers Weekly
Author: Benjamin Franklin: a Biography in His Own Words
Author: Benjamin FranklinPublisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
Based on vols. 1-15 of The papers of Benjamin Franklin.
American Prose to 1820
Author: Donald YannellaPublisher: Detroit : Gale Research Company
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The Microbook Library of American Civilization
Author: Library Resources, incPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description