Biography of Laura Dewey Bridgman, known as the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, fifty years before the

Excerpt from Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman: The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl The author and editor of the present volume was a teacher for five years

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