Author: Laurence Hutton
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Category : Books
Languages : en
Pages : 234

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Author: Paul Machlis
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520096882
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1242

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Author: Kim E. Nielsen
Publisher: Beacon Press
ISBN: 0807097470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384

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A moving portrait of Anne Sullivan Macy, teacher of Helen Keller—and a complex, intelligent woman worthy of her own spotlight After many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she and her peers had failed Anne Sullivan Macy. While Macy is remembered primarily as Helen Keller's teacher and a straightforward educational superhero, the real story of this brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman has never been completely told. Beyond the Miracle Worker seeks to correct this oversight, presenting a new tale about the wounded but determined woman and her quest for a successful, meaningful life. Born in 1866 to poverty-stricken Irish immigrants, Macy suffered part of her childhood in the Massachusetts State Almshouse at Tewksbury. Seeking escape, in love with literature, and profoundly stubborn, she successfully fought to gain an education at the Perkins School for the Blind. She went on to teach Helen Keller, who became a loyal and lifelong friend. As Macy floundered with her own blindness, ill health, depression, and marital strife in her later years, she came to lean on her former student for emotional, physical, and economic support. Based on privately held primary source material—including materials at both the American Foundation for the Blind and the Perkins School for the Blind—Beyond the Miracle Worker is revelatory and absorbing, unraveling one of the best known and least understood friendships of the twentieth century.

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Publisher: princeton alumni weekly
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Languages : en
Pages : 482

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Category : Autographs
Languages : en
Pages : 872

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A record of literary properties sold at auction in the United States.

Author: American Art Association, Anderson Galleries (Firm)
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Languages : en
Pages : 754

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Author: Nella Braddy
Publisher: unschoolar
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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這本書寫於1933年，在美國甚或其實地區已經屬於公共領域。 出版者將舊書製成數位化版本是為了向這三位女性致敬：作者內拉·布拉迪(Nella Braddy)、第一位獲得大學學位的聾盲人海倫·凱勒(Helen Keller) 以及她堅持不懈的老師安妮·蘇利文·梅西(Anne Sullivan Macy)。此外，海倫凱勒的筆跡也被數位化，製成為海倫凱勒手寫字體(Helen Keller Handwriting Font)，並用於這電子書的封面。 這本書在教育和人類演進方面具有非常重要的意義，其內容對整個世界是無價的。

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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 566

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Author: Kate Field
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 9780809320783
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Although famous during her lifetime, Kate Field (1838-1896) subsequently slipped into such a state of obscurity that in 1964, when the St. LouisAmerican published a bicentennial article to honor one of the city's most distinguished daughters, the eulogy bore the title "Who Was Kate Field?" Carolyn Moss has collected correspondence ranging over more than fifty years to allow Field to answer that question herself. Field was acquainted with, among numerous others, George Eliot, Oscar Wilde, Julia Ward Howe, Mark Twain, Charles Dickens, the Brownings, and the Trollopes. Outside the world of literature, she hobnobbed with such men and women as Harriet Hosmer, Horace Greeley, Gilbert and Sullivan, Stanley and Livingstone, and Alexander Graham Bell. That Field's contemporaries attached much importance to her correspondence is demonstrated by the fact that her letters were preserved and found their way into more than thirty archives. For those of us heading into the twenty-first century, the letters enrich our knowledge of Field's contemporaries and help illuminate an epoch. Taking a chronological approach, Moss has divided the correspondence into ten parts. Part 1 covers Field's St. Louis childhood, her days as a Boston schoolgirl, and her trip to Europe. Part 2 deals with her stay in Florence and her friendship with the Brownings, the Trollopes, and other literary visitors. In part 3, Field returns to America, where she achieves fame as a journalist, lecturer, and author. In part 4, she writes of her voyage to London and the grief and readjustment occasioned by the death of her mother. She becomes, in part 5, a playwright and actress, promotes Bell's telephone, and helps establish the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre. Part 6 finds Field founding the Ladies' Cooperative Dress Association. Part 7 deals with her campaign against the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints. In part 8, Field crosses America to promote Alaska and to lecture against prohibition. Part 9 contains Field's correspondence as owner and editor of Kate Field's Washington, and part 10 shows her final days. While Field's achievements are indeed impressive, Moss points out that the dauntless spirit of this voteless, unmarried, and at times destitute woman is more impressive still.