The Education Of Laura Bridgman
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Author |
: Ernest Freeberg |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 278 |
Release |
: 2001-05-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105110163768 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Education of Laura Bridgman by : Ernest Freeberg
Introduction 1. In Quest of His Prize 2. Mind over Matter 3. In the Public Eye 4. Body and Mind 5. The Instinct to Be Good 6. Punishing Thoughts 7. Sensing God 8. Crisis 9. Disillusionment 10. A New Theory of Human Nature 11. My Sunny Home 12. Legacy.
Author |
: Sally Hobart Alexander |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 124 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0618852999 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780618852994 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (99 Downloads) |
Synopsis She Touched the World by : Sally Hobart Alexander
Laura was blind, deaf and could not speak, but she was educated at the first school for the blind and learned to live a useful life.
Author |
: Mary Swift Lamson |
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Total Pages |
: 430 |
Release |
: 1879 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015005213668 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl by : Mary Swift Lamson
Author |
: Elisabeth Gitter |
Publisher |
: Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages |
: 471 |
Release |
: 2011-04-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781429931298 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1429931299 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (98 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Imprisoned Guest by : 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 indeed, thanks to Howe and an extraordinary group of female teachers, Laura Bridgman learned to finger spell, to read raised letters, and to write legibly and even eloquently. Philosophers, poets, educators, theologians, and early psychologists hailed Laura as a moral inspiration and a living laboratory for the most controversial ideas of the day. She quickly became a major tourist attraction, and many influential writers and reformers visited her or wrote about her. But as the Civil War loomed and her girlish appeal faded, the public began to lose interest. By the time Laura died in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller. The Imprisoned Guest retrieves Laura Bridgman's forgotten life, placing it in the context of nineteenth-century American social, intellectual, and cultural history. Her troubling, tumultuous relationship with Howe, who rode Laura's achievements to his own fame but could not cope with the intense, demanding adult she became, sheds light on the contradictory attitudes of a "progressive" era in which we can find some precursors of our own.
Author |
: Kimberly Elkins |
Publisher |
: Grand Central Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 316 |
Release |
: 2014-06-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781455528974 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1455528978 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis What Is Visible by : Kimberly Elkins
A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen Keller. At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve, Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting America. And by age twenty, she was considered the nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance. Not since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has a book proven so profoundly moving in illuminating the challenges of living in a completely unique inner world. With Laura—by turns mischievous, temperamental, and witty—as the book's primary narrator, the fascinating kaleidoscope of characters includes the founder of Perkins Institute, Samuel Gridley Howe, with whom she was in love; his wife, the glamorous Julia Ward Howe, a renowned writer, abolitionist, and suffragist; Laura's beloved teacher, who married a missionary and died insane from syphilis; an Irish orphan with whom Laura had a tumultuous affair; Annie Sullivan; and even the young Helen Keller. Deeply enthralling and rich with lyricism, What is Visible chronicles the breathtaking experiment that Laura Bridgman embodied and its links to the great social, philosophical, theological, and educational changes rocking Victorian America. Given Laura's worldwide fame in the nineteenth century, it is astonishing that she has been virtually erased from history. What is Visible will set the record straight.
Author |
: Edith Fisher Hunter |
Publisher |
: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1963 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0395068355 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780395068359 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Child of the Silent Night by : Edith Fisher Hunter
The story of Helen Keller is well-known throughout the world, but few people know of Laura Bridgman. Also blind and deaf, she was the first to break the pattern of early nineteenth-century tradition, learning to read the alphabet and leading the way for others to be freed of their handicaps.
Author |
: Gardiner Greene Hubbard |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 38 |
Release |
: 1867 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0023847275 |
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Rating |
: 4/5 (75 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Education of Deaf Mutes by : Gardiner Greene Hubbard
Author |
: Rosemary Mahoney |
Publisher |
: Little, Brown |
Total Pages |
: 282 |
Release |
: 2014-01-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780316248709 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0316248703 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis For the Benefit of Those Who See by : Rosemary Mahoney
In the tradition of Oliver Sacks's The Island of the Colorblind, Rosemary Mahoney tells the story of Braille Without Borders, the first school for the blind in Tibet, and of Sabriye Tenberken, the remarkable blind woman who founded the school. Fascinated and impressed by what she learned from the blind children of Tibet, Mahoney was moved to investigate further the cultural history of blindness. As part of her research, she spent three months teaching at Tenberken's international training center for blind adults in Kerala, India, an experience that reveals both the shocking oppression endured by the world's blind, as well as their great resilience, integrity, ingenuity, and strength. By living among the blind, Rosemary Mahoney enables us to see them in fascinating close up, revealing their particular "quality of ease that seems to broadcast a fundamental connection to the world." Having read For the Benefit of Those Who See, you will never see the world in quite the same way again. "In this intelligent and humane book, Rosemary Mahoney writes of people who are blind . . . She reports on their courage and gives voice, time and again, to their miraculous dignity." -- Andrew Solomon, author of Far From the Tree
Author |
: Ernest Freeberg |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 368 |
Release |
: 2014-01-28 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780143124443 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0143124447 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Age of Edison by : Ernest Freeberg
A sweeping history of the electric light revolution and the birth of modern America The late nineteenth century was a period of explosive technological creativity, but more than any other invention, Thomas Edison’s incandescent light bulb marked the arrival of modernity, transforming its inventor into a mythic figure and avatar of an era. In The Age of Edison, award-winning author and historian Ernest Freeberg weaves a narrative that reaches from Coney Island and Broadway to the tiniest towns of rural America, tracing the progress of electric light through the reactions of everyone who saw it and capturing the wonder Edison’s invention inspired. It is a quintessentially American story of ingenuity, ambition, and possibility in which the greater forces of progress and change are made by one of our most humble and ubiquitous objects.
Author |
: Marfe Ferguson Delano |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 72 |
Release |
: 2008 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1426302096 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781426302091 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (96 Downloads) |
Synopsis Helen's Eyes by : Marfe Ferguson Delano
A photobiography of Annie Sullivan, a woman who overcame her own disabilities to become an educational pioneer and life-long teacher to Helen Keller.