A Light in the Dark (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Milton Meltzer
- First Published: 1964
- Time of Work: 1801–1876
- Setting: Boston, Greece, Germany, Poland, and Canada
- Principal Characters: Samuel Gridley Howe, Julia Ward Howe, Charles Sumner, Laura Bridgman, Charles Dickens, Horace Mann, John Brown, Reverend Theodore Parker
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Teaching or teachers, Social reform, Abolitionists, Blindness or blind persons, Education or educators, Biography, Greco-Turkish wars
- Locales: Boston, MA, Canada, Germany, Greece, Poland
Form and Content
Milton Meltzer’s A Light in the Dark: The Life of Samuel Gridley Howe is a more-or-less chronological narrative of Howe’s life, beginning with his childhood and ending with his death. Meltzer divides Howe’s story into various stages: his education, his participation in the Greek Revolution, his experiences as a teacher of the blind and as an educational reformer, his involvement in the antislavery movement, and the end of his life. Meltzer cites the opinions of many who knew Howe and provides extensive bibliographies of Howe’s writings, other...
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