The Touch of Magic (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Lorena A. Hickok
- First Published: 1961
- Time of Work: 1876–1936
- Setting: Massachusetts, Alabama, New York, Puerto Rico, and California
- Principal Characters: Anne Sullivan Macy, Jimmie Sullivan, Helen Keller, John Macy, Polly Thomson, Nella Braddy
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Blindness or blind persons, Education or educators, Communication, Abandoned children, Schools or school life, Poverty or poor people, Public speaking, Biography, Deafness or hearing-impaired persons
- Locales: California, New York, Alabama, Massachusetts, Puerto Rico
Form and Content
In The Touch of Magic: The Story of Helen Keller’s Great Teacher, Anne Sullivan Macy, Lorena A. Hickok emphasizes the biography of her subject over the intertwined story of Helen Keller; her famous pupil does not appear until chapter 7 Hickok generally refers to Anne Sullivan (later Anne Sullivan Macy, after her marriage to John Macy) simply as “Annie.”
The Touch of Magic begins as Sullivan and her sickly brother are being delivered to an almshouse in Tewksbury, Massachusetts, as wards of the state. Their mother was dead, their father...
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