The imprisoned guest : : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl

Title The imprisoned guest : : Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the original deaf-blind girl
Names Gitter, Elisabeth.
Book Number BR013353
Title Status Active
Medium Braille
Annotation The life of Laura Bridgman, deaf and blind from age two, who became one of the most famous women of the mid-nineteenth century. Explores her education with Samuel Howe at Boston's Perkins Institution for the Blind; views her achievements in the context of American social, cultural, and intellectual history. 2001.
Local Subject General Non-Fiction - GNF
Hearing Disability Interest - DIH
Adult Non-Fiction - AN
Adult Book - AD
Short Book - SH
Biography - Notable Women - BIW
Women's Interest - WOM
Biography & Autobiography - BIO
Biography - Blind Individuals - BIDV
Disability Interest - Visual Disability - DIV
Biography - Individuals w/ Disabilities - BID
Disability Interest - DII
History, United States - HUS
Massachusetts Interest - MAI
Biography - Historical - BIH
Audience Notes A
LC Subject Deafblind women - United States - Biography
Teachers of deafblind people - United States - Biography
Call Number 362.41092 B ANF
Language English
Released 2001
Publication Info Washington, D.C. : National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress, 2001 (National Braille Press, transcribing agency. National Braille Press, distributor.)
Original Publication Transcription of: 1st ed. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001.
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