Helen Keller (Identities and Issues in Literature)
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Helen Keller was born in 1880 in Alabama, the daughter of Arthur Keller, a former captain in the Confederate Army. At the age of nineteen months, Keller was stricken with a disease which has never been clearly identified. It left her blind and deaf. Her education began when Anne Sullivan became her teacher in 1887, after young Helen’s situation had come to the attention of many celebrities of the time.
Keller was a rapid learner, and her earliest letters and school assignments proclaimed her love for literature and her desire to become a professional...
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