Question

setting of ch 1 in story of my life

Answer 1

 Keller was born on June 27, 1880 in Tuscumbia, Alabama, USA, as the eldest child of Arthur H. Keller, a Captain in the Confederate Army and Katherine Adams, an educated lady from an intellectual family. She   was deprived of her sight and hearing due to illness that struck her when she was nineteen months old. ‘Ivy Green’, where Helen spent her childhood after her illness, was a paradise, a profusion of greenery and flowers. She spent most of her time in the garden, guided by her extra perceptions of smell, touch and hearing. The wonderful scenes of Nature that she had imprinted in her mind during the days before her illness