the story of my life an autobiography of helen keller

Her Father was loyal southerner who had proudly served in the confederate Army during the American civil war. Her Mother was tall, statuesque blonde with blue eyes. She was an admirant of nature, In Simple words, she was as fit as fiddle. She was born as a normal child with complete sight and hearing ability. She was the Daughter of Captain Arthur Henley Keller and Kate Adams Keller. One of my Swiss ancestors wasthe frst teacher of the deaf in Zurich and wrote a book on the subjectof their education–rather a singular coincidence though it is truethat there is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, andno slave who has not had a king among his.Helen Adams Keller was born on 27th June, 1880 in Tuscumbia, a small rural town in Northwest Alabama, USA. The family on my father’s side is descended from Caspar Keller, a nativeof Switzerland, who settled in Maryland. In order,therefore, not to be tedious I shall try to present in a series ofsketches only the episodes that seem to me to be the most interestingand important.I was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, a little town of northernAlabama. “Besides, many of the joys and sorrows of childhood have lost theirpoignancy and many incidents of vital importance in my early educationhave been forgotten in the excitement of great discoveries. A few impressions stand out vividly from the frstyears of my life but “the shadows of the prison-house are on the rest. The woman paints the child’s experiencesin her own fantasy. When I try to classify my earliestimpressions, I fnd that fact and fancy look alike across the years thatlink the past with the present. The task of writing anautobiography is a diffcult one. It is with a kind of fear that I begin to write the history of my life.I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil thatclings about my childhood like a golden mist.

Text from The Story of My Life – Helen Keller’s Autobiography You can see more books about disability in our disability tag: This book has been formatted for sharing in a user friendly pdf format by Free Kids Books, the editable format, odt, is also available, here: The book includes letters written by Helen from the age when she first began education at 8 years old to the time just before she entered college, as an adult and also includes some letters from Anne Sullivan. Helen Keller’s Autobiography, written at age 22, and details her growing up, before and after meeting Anne Sullivan, and her years in formal education, both special needs education and afterwards when she was accepted into main stream education, with the help of Ms Sullivan’s translation.

The story of my life an autobiography of helen keller