Helen Keller: selected writings

Nielsen, Kim

Kim Nielsen

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