Kim E Nielsen
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
Anna Ott died in the Wisconsin State Hospital for the Insane in 1893. She had enjoyed status and financial success first as a physician's wife and then as the only female doctor in Madison. Throughout her first marriage, attempts to divorce her abusive second husband, and twenty years of institutionalization, Ott determinedly shaped her own life.
Kim E. Nielsen explores a life at once irregular and unexceptional. Historical and institutional structures,
...Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Description
xv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Helen Keller: Selected Writings collects Keller's personal letters, political writings, speeches, and excerpts of her published materials from the entire scope of her writing life (1887-1957). The book includes a selection of over thirty illustrations, an introductory essay by Kim E. Nielsen, headnotes to each document, and a selected bibliography of work by and about Keller. Drawn from the archives of the American Foundation for the Blind, many...
Author
Series
Library of America volume 378
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Description
xiii, 640 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A deluxe hardcover edition of Keller's classic memoir The Story of My Life--presented in complete and unredacted form--along with the brilliant, still-underappreciated personal essays of The World I Live In, in which Keller reflects on the senses, language, philosophy, dreams, and belief. Includes a selection of more than a dozen essays, speeches, and letters--most of them out-of-print, previously uncollected, or previously unpublished--revealing...
