Bibliograph

The "miracle worker" and the transcendentalist, Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller, David Wagner

Type

Label

The "miracle worker" and the transcendentalist, Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller, David Wagner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The "miracle worker" and the transcendentalist

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

682894244

Responsibility statement

David Wagner

Sub title

Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller

Table Of Contents

Prologue: Sanborn's younger days 1831-1865 -- The post Civil War North: triumphant for some -- "Mr. Sanborn, Mr. Sanborn, I want to go to school" -- Yankee administrators and Irish populism -- Keller and Sullivan: world fame and local hostility 1887-1892 -- The attack on Keller and Sullivan in the early twentieth century -- Progressivism and radicalism in the 1910s -- Generations, class, ethnicity, gender, and disability in the conflict -- Epilogue: Keller and Sullivan Macy's later years, 1917-1968

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