{"id":142,"date":"2015-05-15T20:16:05","date_gmt":"2015-05-15T20:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.candelalearning.com\/masteryamlit1x6xmaster\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=142"},"modified":"2015-07-23T19:32:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-23T19:32:11","slug":"reading-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-americanlit1\/chapter\/reading-autobiography-of-benjamin-franklin\/","title":{"raw":"Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin","rendered":"Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin"},"content":{"raw":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\r\n\r\n<i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/06\/23110027\/Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Siffrein_Duplessis.jpg\"><img class=\"alignleft  wp-image-347\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/06\/23110027\/Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Siffrein_Duplessis-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oil painting of Benjamin Franklin\" width=\"138\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/i> is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his <i>Memoirs<\/i>. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin's death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.\r\n\r\nFranklin's account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three's narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break (only an editorial one).\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n&nbsp;\r\n\r\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20203\/20203-h\/20203-h.htm#AUTOBIOGRAPHY\">Read Chapters I\u2013IX (pp 1\u2013168) of Franklin's <em>Autobiography<\/em><\/a>\r\n\r\nAlternatively, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-autobigraphy-of-benjamin-franklin-ed-by-frank-woodworth-pine\/\" target=\"_blank\">play audio files of Franklin's <em>Autobiography<\/em> here<\/a>.","rendered":"<div class=\"textbox shaded\">\n<p><i><b><a href=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/06\/23110027\/Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Siffrein_Duplessis.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-347\" src=\"https:\/\/s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com\/courses-images-archive-read-only\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2015\/06\/23110027\/Benjamin_Franklin_by_Joseph_Siffrein_Duplessis-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"Oil painting of Benjamin Franklin\" width=\"138\" height=\"171\" \/><\/a>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin<\/b><\/i> is the traditional name for the unfinished record of his own life written by Benjamin Franklin from 1771 to 1790; however, Franklin himself appears to have called the work his <i>Memoirs<\/i>. Although it had a tortuous publication history after Franklin&#8217;s death, this work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written.<\/p>\n<p>Franklin&#8217;s account of his life is divided into four parts, reflecting the different periods at which he wrote them. There are actual breaks in the narrative between the first three parts, but Part Three&#8217;s narrative continues into Part Four without an authorial break (only an editorial one).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20203\/20203-h\/20203-h.htm#AUTOBIOGRAPHY\">Read Chapters I\u2013IX (pp 1\u2013168) of Franklin&#8217;s <em>Autobiography<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Alternatively, you can <a href=\"https:\/\/librivox.org\/the-autobigraphy-of-benjamin-franklin-ed-by-frank-woodworth-pine\/\" target=\"_blank\">play audio files of Franklin&#8217;s <em>Autobiography<\/em> here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-142\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Shared previously<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Introduction to The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Wikipedia. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Autobiography_of_Benjamin_Franklin<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0\/\">CC BY-SA: Attribution-ShareAlike<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">Public domain content<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Benjamin Franklin. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Project Gutenberg. <strong>Located at<\/strong>: <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20203\/20203-h\/20203-h.htm#AUTOBIOGRAPHY\">https:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/files\/20203\/20203-h\/20203-h.htm#AUTOBIOGRAPHY<\/a>. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a 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