Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind Girl

Lamson, Mary Swift

Edité par New England Publishing Company, Boston, 1878

A propos de cet article

First edition, with 1878 present on title and copyright page. Green cloth, decorated in blind and black. 373 pp. Photograph frontis of Bridgman, along with two fold out plates of writing in the text. A biography of Laura Bridgman, a woman who, after being stricken with scarlet fever at the age of two, was left deaf and blind. Showing an aptitude for learning, Bridgman was enrolled at the Perkins Institute for the Blind, successfully learning Braille and sign language, as well as general knowledge, including arithmetic. She gained some fame in her early teenage years when Charles Dickens wrote about her in 1842, but this fame eventually faded. Her story did inspire the mother of Helen Keller, who then hired Anne Sullivan, who was a student at the Perkins School. This biography was written by one of Bridgman's teachers. GOOD+ condition. Minor fading and edgewear to the covers. Faint evidence of dampstaining along the fore edge of the cover, with dampstaining affecting the right third of the first 50 or so pages.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman, the deaf, dumb, and blind Girl
• Éditeur: New England Publishing Company, Boston
• Date de parution: 1878
• Reliure: Cloth
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Americana
  • Biography
  • History