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Twelve
June 2014
On Sale: June 3, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 145552896X
EAN: 9781455528967
Kindle: B00FPQCSG8
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Historical
A vividly original literary novel based on the astounding
true-life story of Laura Bridgman, the first deaf and blind
person who learned language and blazed a trail for Helen
Keller.
At age two, Laura Bridgman lost four of
her five senses to scarlet fever. At age seven, she was
taken to Perkins Institute in Boston to determine if a child
so terribly afflicted could be taught. At age twelve,
Charles Dickens declared her his prime interest for visiting
America. And by age twenty, she was considered the
nineteenth century's second most famous woman, having
mastered language and charmed the world with her brilliance.
Not since The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has a
book proven so profoundly moving in illuminating the
challenges of living in a completely unique inner
world.
With Laura-by turns mischievous,
temperamental, and witty-as the book's primary narrator, the
fascinating kaleidoscope of characters includes the founder
of Perkins Institute, Samuel Gridley Howe, with whom she was
in love; his wife, the glamorous Julia Ward Howe, a renowned
writer, abolitionist, and suffragist; Laura's beloved
teacher, who married a missionary and died insane from
syphilis; an Irish orphan with whom Laura had a tumultuous
affair; Annie Sullivan; and even the young Helen
Keller.
Deeply enthralling and rich with lyricism,
WHAT IS VISIBLE chronicles the breathtaking experiment that
Laura Bridgman embodied and its links to the great social,
philosophical, theological, and educational changes rocking
Victorian America. Given Laura's worldwide fame in the
nineteenth century, it is astonishing that she has been
virtually erased from history. WHAT IS VISIBLE will set the
record straight.
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