Publication History
"The Speech of Polly Baker" was first published in April 1747 in The Gentleman's Magazine. Initially the piece was published anonymously but in 1905 was included in The Writings of Benjamin Franklin although the editor had yet to prove the authorship. Max Hall, author of Benjamin Franklin and Polly Baker: The History of a Literary Deception (1960) proved conclusively that Franklin wrote the piece, a conclusion accepted by scholars.
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