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Silence Dogood was a false persona used by Benjamin Franklin to get his work published. As a teenager, Franklin worked as an apprentice in his older brother (James Franklin)'s printing shop in Boston...
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Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 [O.S. January 6, 1705]  – April 17, 1790) was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. A noted polymath, Franklin was a leading author and pr...
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In 1722 a series of letters appeared in the New-England Courant written by a middle-aged widow named Silence Dogood. The letters poked fun at various aspects of life in colonial America, such as the drunkenness of locals, religious hypocrisy, and the persecution of women.
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Silence Dogood, part of The Electric Franklin ... Here are letters from Silence Dogood, printed in the New England Courant. For more information about the fictitious Silence Dogood, read our Silence Dogood section of the backgrounder to the Courant...
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Silence Dogood was the widow of a country minister. She was "an Enemy to Vice, and a Friend to Vertue." She loved the clergy and good men but was the "mortal Enemy to arbitrary government and Unlimited Power." She was also a bit of a yenta who would "observe and reprove the Faults of others."
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He adopted the pseudonym Mrs. Silence Dogood, giving the author a female role so as to make "her" comments ... Mrs. Silence Dogood, the humble yet dignified widow of a country parson, wrote in a style filled with serious conclusions and clever humor. Her role was to inform the narrow-minded public of the art of doing good.
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Silence Dogood, Harry Meanwell, Alice Addertongue, Richard Saunders, and Timothy Turnstone were a few of the many pseudonyms Franklin used throughout his career. Silence Dogood — Mrs. Dogood was Franklin's first pseudonym, created when he was sixteen years old and serving as a printer's apprentice to his brother James.
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Knowing that James wouldn’t print something that his younger brother wrote, 16-year-old Ben wrote a series of witty and enormously successful letters in the persona of a middle-aged widow named "Silence Dogood.
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The Million Gun March ... Silence Dogood, No 2 - April 16, 1722 ... Hugo Grim on Silence Dogood - December 3, 1722...
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Since Mrs. DOGOOD has kept SILENCE for so long a Time, you have no doubt lost a very valuable Correspondent, and the Publick been depriv'd of many profitable Amusements, for which reason I desire you to convey the following Lines to Her, that so if she be in the Land of the Living we may know the Occasion of her Silence.
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