Jill Lepore - Not long before my mother died, ...

Not long before my mother died, I found a long-lost portrait of Jane Franklin's granddaughter, Jane Flagg, aged nine - oil on canvas - in the basement of a public library not a dozen miles from my mother's house.

Jill Lepore

American Historian

Born: Aug 27, 1966

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