Helen Keller (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Eileen Bigland
- First Published: 1967
- Time of Work: 1880–1968
- Setting: Alabama, Massachusetts, England, Scotland, and Japan
- Principal Characters: Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan Macy, John Macy, Alexander Graham Bell, Michael Anagnos, Polly Thomson, Mark Twain
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Social action, Teaching or teachers, Authors or writers, Blindness or blind persons, Education or educators, Communication, Disabilities or physically challenged persons, Lectures or lecturing, Biography, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
- Locales: England, Alabama, Massachusetts, Japan, Scotland
Form and Content
In Helen Keller, Eileen Bigland relates the story of the extraordinary deaf and blind woman who, with aid from a dedicated teacher, learned to overcome her disabilities. Presenting the story of Keller’s entire life, from her birth in 1880 to her death in 1968 at the age of eighty-eight, Bigland’s work is comprised of twelve chapters organized chronologically and accompanied by rather pedestrian black-and-white pen drawings. Aside from brief allusions to two biographies of Keller, and one of teacher Anne Sullivan, there is no bibliography and,...
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