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Author Emerson, Elizabeth, 1957- author.

Title Letters from Red Farm : the untold story of the friendship between Helen Keller and journalist Joseph Edgar Chamberlin / Elizabeth Emerson
Published Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, 2021

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Series Bright leaf
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter One -- Chapter Two -- Chapter Three -- Chapter Four -- Chapter Five -- PART II -- Chapter Six -- Chapter Seven -- Chapter Eight -- Chapter Nine -- Chapter Ten -- PART III -- Chapter Eleven -- Chapter Twelve -- Chapter Thirteen -- Chapter Fourteen -- Chapter Fifteen -- PART IV -- Chapter Sixteen -- Chapter Seventeen -- Chapter Eighteen -- Afterword -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- Photo gallery
Summary "In 1888, young Helen Keller traveled to Boston with her teacher, Annie Sullivan, where they met a man who would change her life: Boston Transcript columnist and editor Joseph Edgar Chamberlin. Throughout her childhood and young adult years, Keller spent weekends and holidays at Red Farm, the Chamberlins' home in Wrentham, Massachusetts, a bustling environment where avant-garde writers, intellectuals, and social reformers of the day congregated. Keller eventually called Red Farm home for a year when she was sixteen. Informed by previously unpublished letters and extensive research, Letters from Red Farm explores for the first time Keller's deep and enduring friendship with the man who became her literary mentor and friend for over forty years. Written by Chamberlin's great-great granddaughter, this engaging story imparts new insights into Keller's life and personality, introduces the irresistible Chamberlin to a modern public, and follows Keller's burgeoning interest in social activism, as she took up the causes of disability rights, women's issues, and pacifism"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935 -- Friends and associates
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 -- Friends and associates
SUBJECT Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 -- Friends and associates
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935 -- Friends and associates
Chamberlin, Joseph Edgar, 1851-1935 fast
Keller, Helen, 1880-1968 fast
Subject Journalists -- United States -- Biography
Deafblind women -- United States -- Biography
HISTORY -- General.
Deafblind women
Friendship
Journalists
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021017180
ISBN 9781613768938
1613768931
9781613768921
1613768923