Further Reading
- Perkins School for the Blind: The Campus History Series
- The Education of Laura Bridgman: First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language
- The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, The Original Deaf-Blind Girl
- Mirror, Mirror on the Wall. The Diary of Bess Brennan
- Trent, James W., Jr. The Manliest Man: Samuel G. Howe and the Contours of Nineteenth-Century American Reform. University of Massachusetts Press, 2012
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“Chaucer sawed life in half and out tumbled hundreds of unpremeditated lives, because he didn’t have the cast-iron grid of a priori coherence that makes reading Goethe, Shakespeare, or Dante an exercise in searching for signs of life among the conventions, compulsions, self-justifications, proofs, wise saws, simple but powerful messages, and poetry.”
—Marvin Mudrick (1921–1986)
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