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100 1  Gitter, Elisabeth,|d1945- 
245 14 The imprisoned guest :|bSamuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, 
       the original deaf-blind girl /|cElisabeth Gitter. 
250    First edition. 
264  1 New York :|bFarrar, Straus and Giroux,|c2001. 
300    x, 341 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages [295]-326) and 
       index. 
505 0  Laura -- Chevalier -- Institutions -- Mind -- Found -- 
       Awakening -- Angel -- Second acts -- Sea changes -- 
       Teachers and teaching -- Attachments -- Lamentations -- 
       Legacies -- Revisions -- Epilogue: Passing. 
520    In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston's Perkins
       Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-
       blind seven year old, the daughter of New Hampshire 
       farmers. At once he resolved to rescue her from the 
       darkness and silence of the tomb, and indeed, thanks to 
       Howe and an extraordinary group of female teachers, Laura 
       Bridgman learned to finger-spell, to read raised letters, 
       and to write legibly and even eloquently. Philosophers, 
       poets, educators, theologians, and early psychologists 
       hailed Laura as a moral inspiration and a living 
       laboratory for the most controversial ideas of the day. 
       She quickly became a major tourist attraction, and many 
       influential writers and reformers visited her or wrote 
       about her. But as the Civil War loomed and her girlish 
       appeal faded, the public began to lose interest. By the 
       time Laura died in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by 
       the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller. The 
       Imprisoned Guest retrieves Laura Bridgman's forgotten life,
       placing it in the context of nineteenth-century American 
       social, intellectual, and cultural history. Her troubling,
       tumultuous relationship with Howe, who rode Laura's 
       achievements to his own fame, but could not cope with the 
       intense, demanding adult she became, sheds light on the 
       contradictory attitudes of a progressive era, in which we 
       can find some precursors of our own. 
600 10 Bridgman, Laura Dewey,|d1829-1889. 
600 10 Howe, S. G.|q(Samuel Gridley),|d1801-1876. 
600 12 Bridgman, Laura Dewey,|d1829-1889. 
600 12 Howe, S. G.|q(Samuel Gridley),|d1801-1876. 
650  0 Deafblind women|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650  0 Teachers of deafblind people|zUnited States|vBiography. 
650 12 People with visual disabilities|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 22 Persons With Hearing Impairments|zUnited States
       |vBiography. 
650 22 Teaching|zUnited States|vBiography. 
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