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Helen Keller: selected writings
Kim Nielsen
Year: 2007, c2005.
Publisher:  New York University Press. 
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table of contents
Title Page
Copyright and Permissions
Preface to the Electronic Edition
List of Illustrations
List of Video Clips
[Dedication]
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One: 1889-1900
A: Growing Up
1: I Learn Many New Words
2: A Pleasant Christmas
3: Wishes for a Happy, Happy Christmas
4: I Would Like Very Much to Learn How to Skate
5: Our Work Is Over for the Summer
6: How I Wish We Could Slip Away
7: The Beautiful, Free Country
8: Very Hard to Give Up the Idea of Going to Radcliffe
9: Almost Wholly a World of Books
10: Only Love, Dearest Mr. Hitz
Two: 1900-1924
A: Major Works
11: Helen Keller, The Story of My Life: New York: Dover Publications, 1903.
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Chapter 1
12: The World I Live In: New York: Century Company, 1908.
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IV: The Power of Touch
B: Politics
13: Our Duties to the Blind
14: A Fair Chance to Be Independent and Self-Respecting and Useful
15: The Truth Again
16: The Enfranchisement of Women
17: Their Cause Is My Cause
18: Blind Leaders
19: The Persecution of Those Who Uphold Their Downtrodden Brethren
20: I Am for You
C: Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
21: Again in Working Order
22: Some Nice Young Men
23: I Am Very Sorry, Dear Mother
24: I Shall Not Lose Her, and I Shall Gain a Brother
25: To Fight My Battles Without Further Help
26: To Enliven Things a Bit
27: Blundered So Grievously as to Love Me
28: Perhaps a Little Bit Crestfallen
29: Have You Forgotten All
30: Your Unkind and Altogether Unbrotherly Note
31: How Alone and Unprepared I Often Feel
32: The Cruelty of Society Shakes Me so Violently
33: Manifold Demands, Requests and Interruptions
34: Among the Hills in Los Angeles
35: We Have Given Up Vaudeville Altogether
36: Memories of Mother's Journeyings with Us
37: Our Expenses Are of Necessity Greater than for People in Ordinary Circumstances
Three: 1924-1945
A: Major Works
38: My Religion
39: Midstream: My Later Life (New York: Doubleday, 1929)
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Chapter 3: My First Years in Wrentham
Chapter 11: In The Whirlpool
40: Helen Keller's Journal: London: Michael Joseph, 1938.
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Aboard the S. S. Deutschland, en route for England. Midnight of November 4, 1936.
November 5th
November 8th
November 11th
November 18th
En route to Scotland, November 18th
Later—The Manse, Bothwell
November 23rd
December 22nd
The Central Hotel, Glasgow, December 23rd
December 28th
Later. The Manse, Bothwell
January 6th
Later. The Manse, Bothwell
February 23rd
March 3rd
March 19th
Aboard the Asama-Maru, April 1st
April 8th
April 9th
April 14th
B: Politics
41: How Important the Foundation Is
42: Who Better Than the State Can Be That Friend?
43: Giving the Blind Worthwhile Books
44: To Earn Their Livelihood
45: The Talking Book to Every Corner of Dark-Land
46: An Amendment of Great Importance to the Blind
47: The Double Shadow of Blindness and Deafness
48: The Hardest Pressed and Least Cared-for
49: Multitudes of Injured Servicemen
C: Travel
50: The Japanese Nation Has Watched Over Us Both
51: The Impressions I Have Had of Japan, Korea, Manchuria, and the Pacific
52: The Nazi Authorities Have Closed the Institute
53: This Time of Immeasurable Stakes
D: Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
54: The Battle of Eyes
55: Discuss the Thousand and One Things
56: These Adventures Under the Midnight Sun
57: My Only News Is Loneliness
58: My Faith that Teacher Is Near Is Absolute
59: Bury Myself Deep in Thought
60: You Inspire Other Women
61: That Cup of Vernal Delight
62: Alas! I Am Incorrigible
63: Happy Heart-Throbs
64: My Public Acts and Utterances
65: A Peal of Joy from My Heart Over the President's Re-Election
66: The Tidings of the President's Death
Four: 1946-1968
A: Major Works
67: Teacher
B: Travel
68: The Beauty and the Tragedy which Endeared Greece to Me
69: Hiroshima's Fate Is a Greek Tragedy on a Vast Scale
70: Hiroshima Is Beginning to Flourish Again
71: Our Tour of South Africa
72: Our Trip Through the Near East
73: The Blind in Chile
74: One of the Numberless Instruments in God's Hand
75: The People of India Most Hospitable
C: Friendships, Intimacies, and the Everyday
76: Another Abyss of Evil
77: How You and I Will Talk
78: The Hearts of True Friends
79: Beneath the Fun and Gaiety There Was a Serious Motif: January 31, 1951, letter from Helen Keller to Jo Davidson, Papers of Jo Davidson, Library of Congress.
80: All that Is Greatest and Most Beneficent in American Womanhood
Additional Documents
"An Apology For Going to College"
"Strike Against War"
Address in Washington, D. C. (1925)
Letter to Will Rogers
Notes
Notes to the Introduction
Notes to Part One, section A
Notes to Part Two, section A
Notes to Part Two, section B
Notes to Part Two, section C
Notes to Part Three, section A
Notes to Part Three, section B
Notes to Part Three, section C
Notes to Part Three, section D
Notes to Part Four, section A
Notes to Part Four, section B
Notes to Part Four, section C
Selected Bibliography
Books Authored by Helen Keller
Books and Articles Pertaining to Helen Keller
Autobiographies
Theorizing Disability and Disability History in the United States
Index
About the Editor
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Title: Helen Keller : selected writings edited by Kim E. Nielsen ; consulting editor, Harvey J. Kaye.
Author: Keller, Helen, 1880-1968; Nielsen, Kim E
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Keller, Helen, 1880-1968, Nielsen, Kim E
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Subject Headings: • Keller, Helen, -- 1880-1968
• Deafblind women -- United States
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