The miracle worker and the transcendentalist : Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller

Publication Data

• Title The miracle worker and the transcendentalist : Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller
• Author David Wagner
• Publisher Paradigm Publishers
• Publication date 2012
• Publication location Boulder, CO
• Language English

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.

Topics

• Sullivan, Annie, 1866-1936
• Keller, Helen, 1880-1968
• Sanborn, F. B. (Franklin Benjamin), 1831-1917
• Deafblind people :: Education :: United States :: History :: 19th century
• Women :: United States :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• Transcendentalism (New England)
• United States :: Ethnic relations :: History :: 19th century
• United States :: Social conditions :: 19th century
• United States

The miracle worker and the transcendentalist : Annie Sullivan, Franklin Sanborn, and the education of Helen Keller by David Wagner. ISBN 9781594519369. Published by Paradigm Publishers in 2012. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.