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The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl
The Imprisoned Guest Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman the Original DeafBlind Girl
Author: Elisabeth Gitter
The resurrected story of a deaf-blind girl and the man who brought her out of silence. In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-blind seven-year-old, the daughter of New Hampshire farmers. At once he resolved to rescue her from the "darkness and silence of the tomb." And in...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780374117382
ISBN-10: 0374117381
Pages: 341
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Interesting story. I read this as part of my research for an undergrad paper in my major. Not a life changing book, but curious in the fact the Bridgman all but disappeared from the American cultural landscape with the rise in fame of Helen Keller. Worth your time....
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