Who is Helen Keller

Helen Keller was born at an estate called Ivy Green in Tuscumbia, Alabama, on June 27, 1880, to parents Captain Arthur H. Keller, a former officer of the Confederate Army, and Kate Adams Keller, a cousin of Robert E. Lee. The Keller family originates from Germany, and at least one source claims her father was of Swiss descent. She was not born blind and deaf; it was not until nineteen months of age that she came down with an illness described by doctors as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain," which could have possibly been scarlet fever or meningitis. The illness did not last for a particularly long time, but it left her deaf and blind. At that time her only communication partner was Martha Washington, the six-year old daughter of the family cook, who was able to create a sign language with her; by age seven, she had over 60 different signs to communicate with her family. In his doctoral dissertation, Soviet blind-deaf psychologist A. Meshcheryakov stated that Washington's friendship and teaching was crucial for Keller's later developments.

In 1886, her mother was inspired by an account in Charles Dickens' American Notes of the successful education of another deaf blind child, Laura Bridgman, and traveled to a specialist doctor in Baltimore for advice. He put her in touch with local expert Alexander Graham Bell, who was working with deaf children at the time. Bell advised the couple to contact the Perkins Institute for the Blind, the school where Bridgman had been educated, which was then located in South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts. The school delegated teacher and former student, Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired and then only 20 years old, to become Keller's teacher. It was the beginning of a 49-year-long relationship. For more, see Wikipedia, Helen Keller.

Works by Keller

• 'The Story of My Life by Helen Keller at Project Gutenberg
• The Story of My Life with introduction to the text
• Keller, Helen (2004) [1908]. The World I Live In (NYRB Classics 2004 ed.). New York: NYRB Classics. ISBN 978-1590170670. 
• Keller, Helen (2000) [1927]. Light in my Darkness (2nd Edition ed.). Chrysalis Books. ISBN 978-0877853985. 
• Works by Helen Keller at Project Gutenberg

Politics

• Helen Keller Reference Archivee)
• "How I Became A Socialist", by Helen Keller, 1912-11-03
• "Rethinking the Problematic Icon" Contrasts the iconic image of Keller as disabled saint with her real life in social and political activism.

Internet Movie Database

• Deliverance (1919)
• Helen Keller - Animated biography of Helen Keller on DVD
• Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues (1984) (TV)


• "Playhouse 90" The Miracle Worker (1957)
• The Miracle Worker (1962)
• The Miracle Worker (1979) TV
• The Miracle Worker (2000) TV

Other

• 1925 interview in the Minneapolis Daily Star
• American Foundation for the Blind's Helen Keller collection
• Helen Keller Kids Museum Online
• Obituary in the New York Times
• The Helen Keller Services for the blind
• Helen Keller article, Encyclopedia of Alabama

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