Annie Sullivan letters,
Anne Mansfield "Annie" Sullivan (1866-1936) became the teacher of Helen Keller (1880-1968) in 1887 upon the recommendation of Michael Anagnos (1837-1906), director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in South Boston, Massachusetts, from which Miss Sullivan had...
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| Format: | Kit |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Alexandria, Va. :
Alexander Street,
2011.
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| Series: | Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society.
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| Summary: | Anne Mansfield "Annie" Sullivan (1866-1936) became the teacher of Helen Keller (1880-1968) in 1887 upon the recommendation of Michael Anagnos (1837-1906), director of the Perkins Institution and Massachusetts School for the Blind in South Boston, Massachusetts, from which Miss Sullivan had recently graduated. The letters in this collection were written by Miss Sullivan to Mr. Anagnos between 1887 and 1902 and provide much information relative to Helen Keller's progress in reading, writing, and speaking during her early life in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Included are details of methods used to educate her; the gradual development of her disposition, imagination, and literary abilities; the publication of her first stories (including several letters detailing the plagiarism furor over the "Frost King"); and many remarks on troubling aspects of Helen's home life, such as her mother's inadequacies and her father's financial difficulties. |
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| Item Description: | Online collection includes 177 images of documents. Title from HTML t.p. (viewed June 29, 2015). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |