The greatest woman of our age. Winston Churchill
At the tender age of nineteen months, Helen Keller contracted a disease that
severely impaired her hearing and sight. After seeking help from several people,
she was finally directed to the Perkins Institute for the Blind, where she met
Anne Sullivan, a woman who would change her life. Anne s unorthodox teaching
methods and her steadfast determination to reach out to other people helped
Helen learn to speak, and read and write Braille. Eventually, she became an
inspirational speaker, an advocate for those physically challenged, a socialist,
pacifist and suffragist. This memoir, written while Helen was a student