![]() ![]() The Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Fr.The Thing Witn Feathers: The surprising lives of b.On the other hand, in his autobiography, Benjamin Franklin never mentions his sister. She also kept the letters from her brother. She kept a book, which she called The Book of Ages, in which she recorded the lives of her family. In her older years, she was able to rest, read, and write. ![]() Was married to a n'er-do-well which added to the misery of her life. Survived until adulthood, and more than one suffered from mental illness. So many of its infants and small children to disease-something we scarcely thinkĪbout these days. We were astounded that the average family in the 1700s lost ![]() Her life hasīeen, until this book, one of the great untold stories of American history. We suggested that while Jane may have been every bit as bright as her olderīrother Benjamin, the lack of opportunity for women to do more than bear andĬare for children hampered the lives of most women at that time. Role of women in early America as reflected in the life of Jane Franklin Mecom. 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. One of our book club's young women loves historical books,Īnd we read The Book of Ages at her recommendation. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. ![]()
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