num_pages: 464
description: From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians-a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister whose obscurity and poverty were matched only by her brother's fame and wealth but who like him was a passionate reader a gifted writer and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator.It is a life that has never been examined before: that of the sister of one of the most remarkable men of their time living unknown to the world at large but a constant presence and influence in her brother's life through their correspondence (he wrote more letters to her than to anyone else). Making use of an astonishing 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 extraordinary woman but an entire world. Lepore's life of Jane Franklin with its strikingly original vantage on Benjamin Franklin is at once a wholly different account of the founding and one of the great untold stories of American history and letters.
language: English
title: Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
publisher: Knopf