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Interviews, Law, People, Politics During the War (1775-1783), Women July 18, 2022 July 18, 2022

This Week on Dispatches: Nancy Rubin Stuart on Benjamin Franklin’s Unconventional Marriage to Deborah Read

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On this week’s Dispatches, host Brady Crytzer interviews best-selling author and historian Nancy Rubin Stuart on what made Benjamin Franklin and Deborah Read’s marriage one…

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Autobiography and Biography, Culture, Economics, Law, Letters and Correspondence, People, Women June 28, 2022 June 27, 2022

Benjamin Franklin’s Unconventional Marriage to Deborah Read

by Nancy Rubin Stuart

She was neither beautiful nor wealthy. Nor was Benjamin Franklin’s wife educated or intellectual. Nevertheless in 1724 he proposed to Deborah Read while renting…

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