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Jane Franklin Mecom (March 27, 1712 – May 7, 1794) was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin and was considered one of his closest confidants. Mecom and Franklin corresponded for sixty-three years, throughout the course of Ben Franklin's life, and some of their letters survive.
Jane Franklin Mecom was Benjamin Franklin's sister and she supported the American Revolution.
19 de dic. de 2013 · She became Jane Mecom at fifteen, married to an unremarkable and increasingly troublesome saddler of twenty-two, Edward Mecom, who simply moved himself into the Franklin home and began attempting, unsuccessfully, to find himself a job.
21 de sept. de 2012 · Jane Mecom, Benjamin Franklin’s younger sister and closest confidante, died in 1794. Jill Lepore is writing a book to bring her back. The Harvard historian has spent years, off and on, researching the life of the little-known Mecom, who was the closest person to her iconic brother, exchanging letters with him for 63 years.
- Harvardgazette
1 de jul. de 2014 · The Book of Ages provides us with insight into both Jane Franklin's ordinary, everyday life (and by extension likely that of many average American city dwellers during the 18th century) and how Ben Franklin's extraordinary life wove Itself into his sister's, making him less a legend and more human.
- Jill Lepore
- $10.23
- Vintage
Jane Franklin Mecom was the youngest sister of Benjamin Franklin. She was not, in any other respect, overtly extraordinary. As a widowed, middle aged woman of Boston, struggling to keep herself afloat with a small business and often dependent on the charity of her relations, she must have been
18 de abr. de 2016 · Jill Lepore opens a smeared casement on the life of Jane, Benjamin Franklin’s gifted sister, confidante, and lifelong correspondent. While Benjamin was able to forge a path to greatness from his obscure beginnings, Jane, trapped by gender, starved of education, was not.
