[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED ENGRAVING of "The Miracle Worker"

[Charles Agvent]

[KELLER, Helen] SULLIVAN, Anne Mansfield. SIGNED ENGRAVING of "The 
Miracle Worker." Early 3-3/4" x 5-3/4" engraving from a photograph on a 
7" x 10" sheet tipped to a slightly larger sheet of Helen Keller's 
famous teacher, subject of the play and movie THE MIRACLE WORKER, SIGNED 
in ink below the image: "Anne Mansfield Sullivan." At the age of 7, 
nearly blind from an illness two years before and recently having 
suffered the loss of her mother, Sullivan was abandoned by her father in 
an orphanage with no formal educational facilities. Through her own will 
she managed to be placed in the Perkins Institute for the Blind from 
which she graduated as class valedictorian after regaining much of her 
eyesight from a series of operations. She began teaching Helen Keller 
when the deaf and blind child was seven and, by all accounts, quite 
undisciplined. Sullivan attended classes with Keller and tutored her 
through the Perkins Institute, The Cambridge School for Young Ladies, 
and Radcliffe College, all along achieving a measure of success with her 
unusual student previously unheard of. After Keller's formal education, 
Anne Sullivan continued to assist her by accompanying Keller on her 
travels and on various lecture tours. Sullivan married a young Harvard 
instructor, John Albert Macy, in 1905, and started going by the name 
Anne Sullivan Macy, thus dating this engraving before that date. The 
three lived together until 1912 when the Macys separated. After Keller's 
death in 1968, her ashes were placed next to her beloved companions, 
Anne Sullivan and Polly Thomson, in the St. Joseph's Chapel of 
Washington Cathedral. Old dampstaining and soiling to bottom blank 
margin with only a very slight effect on the signature. Easily Very Good 
or better. (#021468)        $750

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