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Helen Keller: selected writings
Kim Nielsen-
Cover
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Title Page
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Copyright and Permissions
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Preface to the Electronic Edition
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List of Illustrations
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List of Video Clips
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[Dedication]
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction
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One 1889-1900
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A Growing Up
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1 I Learn Many New Words
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2 A Pleasant Christmas
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3 Wishes for a Happy, Happy Christmas
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4 I Would Like Very Much to Learn How to Skate
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5 Our Work Is Over for the Summer
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6 How I Wish We Could Slip Away
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7 The Beautiful, Free Country
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8 Very Hard to Give Up the Idea of Going to Radcliffe
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9 Almost Wholly a World of Books
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10 Only Love, Dearest Mr. Hitz
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Two 1900-1924
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A Major Works
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11 Helen Keller, The Story of My Life New York: Dover Publications, 1903.
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[No head in print version]
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Chapter 1
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12 The World I Live In New York: Century Company, 1908.
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[No head in print version]
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IV The Power of Touch
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B Politics
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13 Our Duties to the Blind
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14 A Fair Chance to Be Independent and Self-Respecting and Useful
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15 The Truth Again
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16 The Enfranchisement of Women
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17 Their Cause Is My Cause
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18 Blind Leaders
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19 The Persecution of Those Who Uphold Their Downtrodden Brethren
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20 I Am for You
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C Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
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21 Again in Working Order
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22 Some Nice Young Men
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23 I Am Very Sorry, Dear Mother
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24 I Shall Not Lose Her, and I Shall Gain a Brother
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25 To Fight My Battles Without Further Help
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26 To Enliven Things a Bit
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27 Blundered So Grievously as to Love Me
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28 Perhaps a Little Bit Crestfallen
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29 Have You Forgotten All
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30 Your Unkind and Altogether Unbrotherly Note
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31 How Alone and Unprepared I Often Feel
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32 The Cruelty of Society Shakes Me so Violently
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33 Manifold Demands, Requests and Interruptions
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34 Among the Hills in Los Angeles
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35 We Have Given Up Vaudeville Altogether
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36 Memories of Mother's Journeyings with Us
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37 Our Expenses Are of Necessity Greater than for People in Ordinary Circumstances
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Three 1924-1945
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A Major Works
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38 My Religion
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39 Midstream: My Later Life (New York: Doubleday, 1929)
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[No head in print version]
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Chapter 3 My First Years in Wrentham
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Chapter 11 In The Whirlpool
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40 Helen Keller's Journal London: Michael Joseph, 1938.
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[No head in print version]
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Aboard the S. S. Deutschland, en route for England. Midnight of November 4, 1936.
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November 5th
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November 8th
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November 11th
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November 18th
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En route to Scotland, November 18th
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Later—The Manse, Bothwell
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November 23rd
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December 22nd
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The Central Hotel, Glasgow, December 23rd
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December 28th
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Later. The Manse, Bothwell
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January 6th
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Later. The Manse, Bothwell
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February 23rd
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March 3rd
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March 19th
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Aboard the Asama-Maru, April 1st
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April 8th
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April 9th
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April 14th
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B Politics
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41 How Important the Foundation Is
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42 Who Better Than the State Can Be That Friend?
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43 Giving the Blind Worthwhile Books
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44 To Earn Their Livelihood
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45 The Talking Book to Every Corner of Dark-Land
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46 An Amendment of Great Importance to the Blind
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47 The Double Shadow of Blindness and Deafness
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48 The Hardest Pressed and Least Cared-for
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49 Multitudes of Injured Servicemen
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C Travel
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50 The Japanese Nation Has Watched Over Us Both
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51 The Impressions I Have Had of Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Pacific
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52 The Nazi Authorities Have Closed the Institute
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53 This Time of Immeasurable Stakes
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D Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
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54 The Battle of Eyes
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55 Discuss the Thousand and One Things
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56 These Adventures Under the Midnight Sun
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57 My Only News Is Loneliness
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58 My Faith that Teacher Is Near Is Absolute
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59 Bury Myself Deep in Thought
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60 You Inspire Other Women
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61 That Cup of Vernal Delight
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62 Alas! I Am Incorrigible
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63 Happy Heart-Throbs
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64 My Public Acts and Utterances
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65 A Peal of Joy from My Heart Over the President's Re-Election
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66 The Tidings of the President's Death
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Four 1946-1968
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A Major Works
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67 Teacher
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B Travel
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68 The Beauty and the Tragedy which Endeared Greece to Me
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69 Hiroshima's Fate Is a Greek Tragedy on a Vast Scale
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70 Hiroshima Is Beginning to Flourish Again
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71 Our Tour of South Africa
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72 Our Trip Through the Near East
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73 The Blind in Chile
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74 One of the Numberless Instruments in God's Hand
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75 The People of India Most Hospitable
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C Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
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76 Another Abyss of Evil
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77 How You and I Will Talk
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78 The Hearts of True Friends
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79 Beneath the Fun and Gaiety There Was a Serious Motif January 31, 1951, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson, Papers of Jo Davidson, Library of Congress.
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80 All that Is Greatest and Most Beneficent in American Womanhood
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Additional Documents
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"An Apology For Going to College"
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"Strike Against War"
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Address in Washington, D. C. (1925)
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Letter to Will Rogers
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Notes
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Notes to the Introduction
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Notes to Part One, section A
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Notes to Part Two, section A
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Notes to Part Two, section B
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Notes to Part Two, section C
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Notes to Part Three, section A
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Notes to Part Three, section B
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Notes to Part Three, section C
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Notes to Part Three, section D
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Notes to Part Four, section A
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Notes to Part Four, section B
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Notes to Part Four, section C
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Selected Bibliography
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Books Authored by Helen Keller
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Books and Articles Pertaining to Helen Keller
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Autobiographies
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Theorizing Disability and Disability History in the United States
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Index
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About the Editor
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Published: 2007
Publisher: New York University Press
- 9780814758472 (ebook)