Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

Meet the overlooked women in history who loved, nurtured, and defended the famed American scientist and founding father.

“ . . . highlights a side of Ben Franklin too often ignored by historians . . . and provides a necessary reminder that the women who came into his life are as deserving of our attention as Ben himself.” —Carol Berkin, author of Revolutionary Mothers

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. Poor Ric...