![]() ![]() IT IS with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life. PART ONE: THE LONG NIGHT Miss Helen Keller (1893) ![]() ![]() It is the editor’s hope to be able to publish at the conclusion of Miss Keller’s own story a supplementary article by one of her friends, explaining, in detail, exactly how this marvelous work was done. “In the story of my life here presented to the readers of The Ladies’ Home Journal, I have tried to show that afflictions may be looked at in such a way that they become privileges.”ĪS THE feat may seem almost incredible, it may be in order to say at the beginning that every word of this story as printed in THE JOURNAL has actually been written by Helen Keller herself - not dictated, but first written in “Braille” (raised points) then transferred to the typewriter by the wonderful girl herself next read to her by her teacher by means of the fingers corrected then read again to her, and in the proof finally read to her once more. Written Entirely by the Wonderful Girl Herself In: Blindness, People, Social Welfare Issues Helen Keller’s Own Story of Her Life ![]()
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