![]() ![]() Book of Ages, for its comprehensive analysis of women in the Revolutionary era, has been celebrated as one of the best contemporary works on early American history. ![]() Lepore’s central thesis is that many female figures have influenced history in ways that do not make it into historical registers, whether due to credit taken from them, or to the active suppression of women’s achievements. ![]() Lepore contends that Jane’s opinions, through her brother and other male peers, informed the course of American history despite her status as a marginalized subject. The youngest sister of the inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin, Jane Franklin was his closest confidant. Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin (2013) is a biography of the eighteenth-century figure Jane Franklin Mecom by American historian Jill Lepore. ![]()
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