Revolution 250 Podcast

Poor Richard's Women with Nancy Rubin Stuart

March 14, 2023 Nancy Rubin Stuart Season 4 Episode 11
Revolution 250 Podcast
Poor Richard's Women with Nancy Rubin Stuart
Show Notes

Benjamin Franklin was one of America's most famous citizens.  He was a printer, scientist, philosopher, diplomat, inventor, postmaster and a self-proclaimed lover of women.  Nancy Rubin Stuart  tells us about some of the women Franklin loved, in three countries and two continents, including his wife Deborah, Madame Brillon and Madame Helvetius, Margaret Stevenson and her daughter Polly, and Kitty Ray of Block Island, whose lives intertwined with Franklin's, and whose stories she tells in her new book,  Poor Richard's Women:  Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women behind the Founding Father.