Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Helen Keller
Standard Name: Keller, Helen
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1903: In her early twenties, American Helen Keller...
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1903
In her early twenties, American Helen Keller
published The Story of My Life, which relates how she achieved advanced education despite the deafness and blindness that had struck her down in babyhood.
Nielsen, Kim E. “Rethinking Helen Keller”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol.
xxi
, No. 4, Jan. 2004, pp. 10-11.
10-11
8 February 1913: A newspaper reported the public-speaking...
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8 February 1913
A newspaper reported the public-speaking debut of Helen Keller
, who became blind and deaf as a baby, lived to the age of seven before she acquired language, and published a best-selling autobiography in 1903.
Hacking, Ian. “Gabble, Twitter and Hoot”. London Review of Books, 1 July 1999, pp. 15-16.
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1920: In the USA the American Civil Liberties Union...
10 May 1933: Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels,...
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10 May 1933
Following a speech from Joseph Goebbels
, over 40,000 people participated in burning books to cleanse German literature and root out Jewish intellectualism.
Bernard, Bruce, editor. Century. Phaidon, 2002.
313, 347
“Book Burning”. Holocaust Encyclopedia.
“Fighting the Fires of Hate: America and the Nazi Book Burnings”. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Texts
Keller, Helen, editor. The Dictionary of Dates. Macmillan, 1934, 2 vols.