And, of course, Deborah Read, his wife of 38 years. Yes, even Ben Franklin-who is ensconced in our national consciousness as a kindly, bespectacled dispenser of aphoristic advice-was a womanizer ...

–Deborah Read Franklin. Deborah Read Franklin. Benjamin Franklin and his future wife, Deborah Read first saw each other in 1723 on his arrival in Philadelphia, when they were only teenagers.

Did you know that the Constitutional Catalyst and Founding Father, Benjamin Franklin, had a lovingly devoted spouse by the name of Deborah Read Franklin? Charming, warm, wise, fearless and ...

If young readers come away from Cokie Roberts’s first children’s book, Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, thinking that Martha Washington, Deborah Read Franklin, and other early ...