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She touched the world : Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer / by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander. |
| Authors: | Alexander, Sally Hobart. |
| Call number: | jB Bridgman, L.D. ALE |
| Publisher: | New York : Clarion Books, c2008. |
| Publication date: | c2008. |
| Subject: |
Deafblind women -- United States -- Biography.
Juvenile literature. Deaf -- Biography. Bridgman, Laura Dewey, 1829-1889. |
| Title: | She touched the world : Laura Bridgman, deaf-blind pioneer / by Sally Hobart Alexander and Robert Alexander. |
| Physical description: | xi, 100 p. : ill., map, 26 cm. |
| Contents note: | Important people in Laura Bridgman's life -- Introduction -- A delicate plant -- In touch -- Friends and frustrations -- "A very unusually tall [man]" -- Taken away -- What can Laura do? -- Words! words! words! -- Schoolgirl -- Windows open -- Weapon or masterpiece? -- "Is God ever surprised?" -- Famous -- Farewells -- Afterword: if Laura were alive today. |
| Summary note: | When she was just two years old, Laura Bridgman lost her sight, her hearing, and most of her senses of smell and taste. But then a progressive doctor, who had just opened the country's first school for the blind in Boston, took her in. Laura learned to communicate, read, and write--and eventually even to teach. |
| Biography note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 94-96) and index. |
| Awards note: | A Junior Library Guild selection |
| Added author: | Alexander, Robert Joseph, 1944- |
| ISBN: | 0618852999 (hardcover) 9780618852994 (hardcover) |
| LCCN: | 2007034978 |
| Url for this record: | http://sherloc.imcpl.org/?itemid=|library/marc/dynix|1149798 |
| Bib No.: | 1149798 |
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