Blind and deaf since infancy, American memoirist and lecturer Helen Adams Keller learned to read, to write, and to speak from her teacher
Anne Sullivan, graduated from Radcliffe in 1904, and lectured widely on behalf of sightless people; her books include
Out of the Dark
(1913).
Conditions bound not Keller. Scarlet fever rendered her deaf and blind at 19 months; she in several languages and as a student wrote
The Story of My Life
. In this age, few women then attended college, and people…
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