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Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller
Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, and Helen Keller
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Length:
29 minutes
Released:
Aug 2, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
(Christine) Laura Bridgman made headlines in the 19th century when her parents enrolled her at the Perkins Institute for the Blind. Under the guidance of Samuel Gridley Howe she learned how to speak with her fingers and became the first formally educated deaf-blind person in the United States. Though we hear little about her today, she was regularly named as an inspiration by Helen Keller- so who was Laura Bridgman and what was she doing hanging out with Charles Dickens?
Released:
Aug 2, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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