Question

Who is Laura Bridgman in Helen Kaller autobiography?

Answer 1

Laura Dewey Bridgman, (born December 21, 1829, Hanover, New Hampshire, U.S.—died May 24, 1889, Boston, Massachusetts), the first blind and deafperson in the English-speaking world to learn to communicate using finger spelling and the written word.

Answer 2

Helen Keller‘s mother hired Anne Sullivan after reading a novel by Charles Dickens’s called “American Notes” which Charles spoke of when he met Laura Bridgman. Laura taught others the manuel alphabet she had learned from Dr. Howe and one of those people was Anne Sullivan.