THE world changes, and the minds of men. Helen Keller outstrips Laura Bridgman, 1 as Rudyard Kipling outstrips Maria Edgeworth. Will Helen herself appear quaint and old-fashioned fifty years hence, to ...

Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl By Elisabeth Gitter Farrar Straus Giroux. 341 pp. $26 THE EDUCATION OF LAURA BRIDGMAN First Deaf and Blind Person To Learn Language By ...

Laura Bridgman lost all her senses but that of touch due to a fever at age two. Though she was an internationally renowned figure in the mid-19th century, Laura has been all but forgotten by history.

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