She Being Dead yet Speaketh
Subtitle: The Franklin Family Papers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
ISBN-13: 9780866986236
Subjects: Dissenters, religious, england; Church and state, great britain
Description: "An edition of the writings of Mary Franklin (d.1711) and her granddaughter, Hannah Burton (1723-1786). Franklin, the wife of ejected Presbyterian minister, Robert Franklin takes up her husband's sermon notebook to describe her experience of religious persecution in Restoration London. In this same notebook, some one hundred years later, Burton, describes her experience of financial ruin in eighteenth-century London"--