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Letters from Red Farm : the untold story of the friendship between Helen Keller and journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin / Elizabeth Emerson.
Van Pelt Library PN4871.C43 E44 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Emerson, Elizabeth, 1957- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935--Friends and associates.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar.
- Keller, Helen, 1880-1968--Friends and associates.
- Keller, Helen.
- Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935.
- Keller, Helen, 1880-1968.
- Journalists--United States--Biography.
- Journalists.
- Friends and associates.
- United States.
- Deafblind women--United States--Biography.
- Deafblind women.
- Friendship.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Amherst : Bright Leaf, an imprint of University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript columnist and editor Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. Throughout her childhood and young adult years, Keller spent weekends and holidays at Red Farm, the Chamberlins' home in Wrentham, Massachusetts, a bustling environment where avant-garde writers, intellectuals, and social reformers of the day congregated. Keller eventually called Red Farm home for a year when she was sixteen. Informed by previously unpublished letters and extensive research, Letters from Red Farm explores for the first time Keller's deep and enduring friendship with the man who became her literary mentor and friend for over forty years. Written by Chamberlin's great-great granddaughter, this engaging story imparts new insights into Keller's life and personality, introduces the irresistible Chamberlin to a modern public, and follows Keller's burgeoning interest in social activism, as she took up the causes of disability rights, women's issues, and pacifism"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: PART I
- ch. One The Road to Boston
- ch. Two Helen and Annie
- ch. Three The Move to Red Farm
- ch. Four Ed Chamberlin Steps In, 1892
- ch. Five Helen's Story
- PART II
- ch. Six Away and Back to Boston, 1894
- 1896
- ch. Seven The Cambridge School
- ch. Eight The Gilman Affair
- ch. Nine "The Happiest Months"
- ch. Ten Radcliffe Aspirations
- PART III
- ch. Eleven Dreams and Challenges
- ch. Twelve Battle Lines
- ch. Thirteen Crisis
- ch. Fourteen Upheaval and Recovery
- ch. Fifteen The Intervening Tears, 1901
- 1915
- PART IV
- ch. Sixteen Souls Tried and Greatened
- ch. Seventeen Reconnection
- ch. Eighteen A Gentle Influence.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Emerson, Elizabeth, 1957- Letters from red farm
- ISBN:
- 9781625346162
- 1625346166
- 9781625346179
- 1625346174
- OCLC:
- 1248600270
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