A Light in the Dark | A Light in the Dark

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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

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...

A Light in the Dark | A Light in the Dark

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