![]() ![]() ![]() The challenge to writing this life story is the greater because, like most women in the past, very few written sources survive to document Jane's life. In this beautifully written double biography, Lepore brings into focus not just the life of Jane Franklin Mecom, alongside that of her brother, but illuminates the dynamic era through which they lived and gives us a birds'-eye view of history from the vantage point of a powerless woman who grew up in a Boston family alongside one of the 18th century's greatest authors, entrepreneurs, scientists and statesmen. ![]()
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