“An Object of Peculiar Interest”: The Education of Laura Bridgman

In the 1840s, Laura Bridgman, a teenage girl from a New Hampshire village, was among the most famous women in the Western world. Thomas Carlyle called her life story “one of the most beautiful phenomena at present visible under our Sun.” British intellectuals, including the novelist Charles Dickens,...

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Main Author: Freeberg, Ernest (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Univ. Press 1992
In: Church history
Year: 1992, Volume: 61, Issue: 2, Pages: 191-205
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