Beyond the Miracle Worker The Remarkable Life of Anne Sullivan Macy and Her Extraordinary Friendship with Helen Keller
by Nielsen, Kim E.Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2010-03-01
Publisher(s): Beacon Press
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Summary
Historians and biographers have short changed Anne Sullivan Macy-the woman known only as the teacher of Helen Keller. Our cultural memories mythologize and simplify her as a straight-forward educational superhero, but Macy described herself a "badly constructed human being". This first biography of Macy in over forty years presents Anne Sullivan Macy in all of her complexity. First and foremost, by telling and analyzing Macy's life as her story-not Helen's-Beyond The Miracle Worker tells a new tale. This biography follows the accidental and unexpected path an orphaned asylum child took to become a world famous educator. This includes an intimate depiction of growing up amidst the horrors of a mid-nineteenth century asylum, a rare if ever told story in U.S. history. It chronicles a tumultuous marriage. It analyzes the long adult life of a chronically ill, disabled woman whose public identity excluded nearly all acknowledgement of her disability. It follows a smart and ambitious woman trying to make a professional life in a patriarchal society. And it traces the ever-changing friendship between Macy and Keller, in which the deaf-blind Keller eventually cared for and became the personal aid of her former teacher.
Author Biography
The author of three books, including two on Helen Keller, Kim E. Nielsen is a professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. She lives in Green Bay.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1
Feeding Hills
Chapter 2
Tewksbury Almshouse
Chapter 3
Perkins, 1880-1885: Part One
Chapter 4
Perkins, 1880-1886: Part Two
Chapter 5
Becoming a Teacher
Chapter 6
Tuscumbia, 1888-1891
Chapter 7
The Battle for Helen, Round 1, 1891-1984
Chapter 8
The Battle for Helen, Round 2, 1894-1900
Chapter 9
Radcliffe, 1900-1904
Chapter 10
John, 1904-1914
Chapter 11
On the Road, 1914-1924
Chapter 12
The American Foundation for the Blind, 1924-1930
Chapter 13
Concluding, 1930-1936
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
Feeding Hills
Chapter 2
Tewksbury Almshouse
Chapter 3
Perkins, 1880-1885: Part One
Chapter 4
Perkins, 1880-1886: Part Two
Chapter 5
Becoming a Teacher
Chapter 6
Tuscumbia, 1888-1891
Chapter 7
The Battle for Helen, Round 1, 1891-1984
Chapter 8
The Battle for Helen, Round 2, 1894-1900
Chapter 9
Radcliffe, 1900-1904
Chapter 10
John, 1904-1914
Chapter 11
On the Road, 1914-1924
Chapter 12
The American Foundation for the Blind, 1924-1930
Chapter 13
Concluding, 1930-1936
Conclusion
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
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