She Being Dead Yet Speaketh: The Franklin Family Papers (Volume 71) (The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series)

On Black Bartholomew’s Day—August 24, 1662—nearly two thousand ministers denied the authority of the Church of England and were subsequently removed from their posts. Mary Franklin was the wife of Presbyterian minister Robert Franklin, one of the dissenting ministers ejected from their pulpits and their livings on that day. She recorded the experience of her persecution in the unused pages of her husband’s sermon notebook. In 1782—some hundred years after the composition of her grandmother’s narrative— Mary’s granddaughter, Hannah Burton, took up this same notebook to chronicle her experience as an impoverished widow, barely surviving the economic revolutions of eighteenth-century London. Collected for the first time, this volume of the Franklin Family Papers offers rare insight into the personal lives of three generations of dissenting women. Cover Foldout Map Title Page Contents Acknowledgments Illustrations Abbreviations Introduction Mary Franklin The Notebook of Mary Franklin (ca. 1685) The Experience of Mary Franklin The Prison Correspondence of Mary and Robert Franklin (1670) The Last Will and Testament of Mary Franklin (1709, probated 1711) Hannah Burton The Diary of Hannah Burton (1782) Appendix 1: The Funeral Sermon for Mary Franklin Appendix 2: Letters Appendix 3: Probated Wills Bibliography Index "An edition of the writings of Mary Franklin (d.1711) and her granddaughter, Hannah Burton (1723-1786). Franklin, the wife of ejected Presbyterian minister, Robert Franklin takes up her husband's sermon notebook to describe her experience of religious persecution in Restoration London. In this same notebook, some one hundred years later, Burton, describes her experience of financial ruin in eighteenth-century London"-- Provided by publisher "An edition of the writings of Mary Franklin (d.1713) and her granddaughter, Hannah Burton (1723-1786). Franklin, the wife of ejected Presbyterian minister, Robert Franklin takes up her husband's sermon notebook to describe her experience of religious persecution in Restoration London. In this same notebook, some one hundred years later, Burton, describes her experience of financial ruin in eighteenth-century London"