Nancy Rubin Stuart | POOR RICHARD'S WOMEN with Larry Tise

Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin—the thrifty inventor-statesman of the Revolutionary era—but not about his love life. reveals the long-neglected voices of the women Ben loved and lost during his lifelong struggle between passion and prudence. The most prominent among them was Deborah Read Franklin, his common-law wife and partner for 44 years. Long dismissed by historians, she was an independent, politically savvy woman and devoted wife who raised their children, managed his finances, and fought off angry mobs at gunpoint while he traipsed about England.

Nancy Rubin Stuart is an award-winning author and journalist who specializes in women, biography, and social history. She has written over four books, including, , which won the 2009 Historic Winslow House Book Award and was a finalist in USA Today Book News 2010 "Best Book" Awards. As a journalist, her work has appeared in many publications including The New York Times, American History Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, The New England Quarterly, and The Huffington Post. Today Nancy writes for print and screen and serves as Executive Director of the Cape Cod Writers Center.

Stuart will be in conversation with Larry Tise, who has a PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has written over four books and served as North Carolina’s State Historian and history executive from 1975 to 1981; as Pennsylvania’s State Historian and history executive, 1981 to 1987; as director of the American Association for State and Local History, 1987 to 1989; and as director of the Benjamin Franklin National Memorial at the Franklin Institute,1989 to 1997. Since 1997 he has been a private practice historian and president of the International Congress of Distinguished Awards in Philadelphia. He is a Senior Associate at the McNeil Center for Early American Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

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