Franklin was a great man—scientist, publisher, political theorist, diplomat. But we can’t understand him fully without considering why he treated his wife so shabbily at the end of her life. The answer isn’t simple. But a close reading of Franklin’s letters and published works, and a ...
Franklin's articles on feminine personas, on female education, and his misogynypopular image of BF, the young boy Ben, not concerning himself much with womennew interpretations of BF, copies of BF's 1745 letter, the “Old Mistresses Apologue”...
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, on January 17, 1706, Benjamin Franklin was one of seventeen children of Josiah Franklin, and his wife, Abiah Folger. Franklin’s mother did not conceive all seventeen children. In 1677, Josiah Franklin married Anne Child. They had three kids in England: Elizabeth...
Benjamin Franklin was an American great scientist. He was born on January 17 1706 in Boston. His father Josiah Franklin was a soap and candle maker. He had seventeen children seven with his first wife Anne Child and ten with his second wife Abiah Folger. Benjamin was his fifteenth child and...
After taking over the publishing of the paper for a few months, Franklin left and travelled to Philadelphia via New York, where he first met his future wife – Miss Read – and again worked for a printers.而后,富兰克林接管了哥哥的印发报纸的工作(这里是因为哥哥被举报)。几个月后,他离开了波士...
Not only was Benjamin Franklin apart of founding our nation, he was also scientist, diplomat, businessman, and philosopher. Benjamin Franklin was born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts to soap maker Josiah Franklin and his second wife Abigail Folger. Benjamin Franklin was apart of ...
Franklin was born on January 17, 1706, in Boston, to a candle and soap maker named Josiah Franklin, who fathered 17 children, and his wife Abiah Folger. Franklin’s formal education ended at age 10 and he went to work as an apprentice to his brother James, a printer. In 1723, follow...
His wife stayed to protect their home, but died soon thereafter, apparently leaving the manuscript of Franklin's Autobiography in the hands of her executor, Abel James, a lawyer. James then wrote Franklin urging him to continue the story and sending him his original outline of proposed topics....
Benjamin Franklin was born in Boston in 1706. He is remembered as an inventor, writer, statesman, and signer of the Declaration of Independence. His father was a soap-maker and candle-maker with a large family. At the age of ten, Ben was taken out of school and put to work in the ...
In this position, which he held for twenty years, Franklin greatly improved the postal service. He also continued his aid to poorer members of his family and to the family of his wife, Deborah. They had two children, Frankie, who died at four, and Sally. Deborah Franklin also raised her...