IMPRISONED GUEST: SAMUEL HOWE AND LAURA BRIDGMAN, THE ORIGINAL DEAF-BLIND GIRL
Book ID/图书代码： 00060004R00808
English Summary/英文概要： The resurrected story of a deaf-blind girl and the man who brought her out of silence.
In 1837, Samuel Gridley Howe, director of Boston’s Perkins Institution for the Blind, heard about a bright, deaf-blind seven-year-old, the daughter of New Hampshire farmers. At once he resolved to rescue her from the "darkness and silence of the tomb." And indeed, thanks to Howe and an extraordinary group of female teachers, Laura Bridgman learned to finger spell, to read raised letters, and to write legibly and even eloquently.
Philosophers, poets, educators, theologians, and early psychologists hailed Laura as a moral inspiration and a living laboratory for the most controversial ideas of the day. She quickly became a major tourist attraction, and many influential writers and reformers visited her or wrote about her. But as the Civil War loomed and her girlish appeal faded, the public began to lose interest. By the time Laura died in 1889, she had been wholly eclipsed by the prettier, more ingratiating Helen Keller.
The Imprisoned Guest retrieves Laura Bridgman’s forgotten life, placing it in the context of nineteenth-century American social, intellectual, and cultural history. Her troubling, tumultuous relationship with Howe, who rode Laura’s achievements to his own fame but could not cope with the intense, demanding adult she became, sheds light on the contradictory attitudes of a "progressive" era in which we can find some precursors of our own.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： Laura Bridgman是个又聋又瞎的女孩子。1837年，在她7岁的时候，Samuel Howel Howe开始训练她的读写能力，经过艰苦的学习，她学会了用手指来阅读和写作，这在当时是一件非常轰动的事情。包括达尔文、作家卡莱尔（Carlyle Thomas）、狄更斯等名人都看望过她，在书中提到过她。然而，在她死后（她死于1889年），年轻迷人的海伦·凯勒挡住了她的光环，渐渐不为人知。书中记录有这两个出色女性生命交错期一些鼓舞人心的故事。
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About the Author/作者介绍： 霍威﹝Samuel G. Howe，1801 - 1876﹞： 创办美国第一所盲人教养院----柏金斯盲校,也改进了房盲人的印刷技术,更促进美国盲人读物印刷厂的设立. 此外,他也为盲人中智能不足者设立了一所多重障碍的实验学校,收容智能不足者和聋童.由于他的努力,使得海伦凯乐的父亲慕名前来柏今斯盲校求助,而请司苏利文担任海伦的老师,对于视障教育有重大影响.
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