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Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
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Title: Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
Author: Elisabeth Gitter
ISBN: 9780374117382
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 341
Publisher Description: In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe set about rescuing Laura Bridgman, a deaf-blind seven-year-old, from the "darkness and silence of the tomb." Bridgman learned to finger-spell, to read raised letters, to write legibly and even eloquently, and became a living exhibit for contemporary theological and psychological debates, with influential writers and reformers -- Carlyle, Dickens, and Hawthorne among them -- visiting or writing about her. But by her death in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller. The Imprisoned Guest is an absorbing, inspiring account of an extraordinary life.
Author: Elisabeth Gitter
ISBN: 9780374117382
Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
Published: 2001
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 341
Publisher Description: In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe set about rescuing Laura Bridgman, a deaf-blind seven-year-old, from the "darkness and silence of the tomb." Bridgman learned to finger-spell, to read raised letters, to write legibly and even eloquently, and became a living exhibit for contemporary theological and psychological debates, with influential writers and reformers -- Carlyle, Dickens, and Hawthorne among them -- visiting or writing about her. But by her death in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller. The Imprisoned Guest is an absorbing, inspiring account of an extraordinary life.
