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Definition of Helen Keller

1. Noun. United States lecturer and writer who was blind and deaf from the age of 19 months; Anne Sullivan taught her to read and write and speak; Helen Keller graduated from college and went on to champion the cause of blind and deaf people (1880-1968).

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Literary usage of Helen Keller

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Annals of the Deaf by Conference of Executives of American Schools for the Deaf (1911)
"Helen Keller IN BERLIN* IN Berlin I found much skepticism among educators regarding the remarkable education of Helen Keller. ..."

2. Mark Twain: A Biography : the Personal and Literary Life of Samuel Langhorne by Albert Bigelow Paine (1912)
"ROGERS AND Helen Keller IT was during the winter of '96, in London, that Clemens took an active interest in the education of Helen Keller and enlisted the ..."

3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1894)
"A RAKE opportunity for study has recently presented itself to educators and scientists in the person of the deaf, blind and formerly dumb girl, Helen Keller ..."

4. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"The ' mental ' nature of the processes in Helen Keller may in part account ... On Helen Keller : Helen Keller, a Souvenir, published by the Volta Bureau, ..."

5. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"This ' literary ' tone of thought and memory, of imagination and application, is unmistakably reflected in the writings and conversation of Helen Keller. ..."

6. Famous Living Americans, with Portraits edited by Mary Griffin Webb, Edna Lenore Webb (1914)
"Helen Keller BY EVELYN M. BUTLER IN the summer of 1894, at Chautauqua, New York, one day the writer noticed on the dock a group of people just arrived by ..."

7. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Mrs. MS, 'Laura Bridgman: Life and Education' (Boston 1878) ; Lc Blanc, Georgette, 'Helen Keller: the Girl who Found the Blue-Bird' (New York 1914); Stone, ..."

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