WEBVTT IN HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE, IS THIS TOMBSTONE. IT READS "LAURA DEWEY BRIDGMAN, DECEMBER 21, 1829 TO MAY 20 4, 8 TEEN 29. ." DEAF, DUMB, AND BLIND FROM TWO YEARS OLD. THIS IS THE RESTING PLACE OF ...
Laura Bridgman, one of the most celebrated women of her time, has been mostly lost to ours. Now, Kimberly Elkins’ wonderful novel salvages her story from the sunken wreckage of history and tells it ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Laura Bridgman is a forgotton figure of American history . She was the first blind, deaf and mute person ever to learn to speak — an achievement which came decades before those of Helen Keller. Jacki ...
2 new books tell the story of Laura Bridgman, a forgotten predecessor Ask any schoolchild to name the famous deaf-and-blind girl who spelled words into her teacher’s hand and you’ll be told: Helen ...
When the novel, "What Is Visible" opens, one of the most famous people in the world is about to meet a little girl who's supposed to be like her - another freak in bloom, is how Laura Bridgman puts it ...
Where Elisabeth Gitter emphasizes Laura Bridgman's intelligence in The Imprisoned Guest (see review, above), perhaps emphasizing it over the ingenuity of her teacher, Samuel Howe, Freeberg brings a ...
THE EDUCATION OF LAURA BRIDGMAN: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language. By Ernest Freeberg. Harvard University Press, $27.95. THE IMPRISONED GUEST: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original ...
THE world changes, and the minds of men. Helen Keller outstrips Laura Bridgman, 1 as Rudyard Kipling outstrips Maria Edgeworth. Will Helen herself appear quaint and old-fashioned fifty years hence, to ...
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