Born in the 1800's ,Anne Sullivan Macy is the teacher who made Helen Keller s development posisible. Here is her story told for the first time. And it is a story almost as incredible as Helen s own. It begins with a little girl who grew;blind among the Irish Famine.refugees in Massachusetts and was| finally thrown away into the oblivion of a great poorhouse. It tells how the doctors and authorijties there gave her up as hopeless and how she was yet able to pull herself out of it; how she learned to read with her fingers at the age of fourteen, how a miraculous operation gave her back part of her sight, and how she learned to read all over again, this time with eyes through Charles Dickens indirectly and Alexander Graham Bell directly she became Helen s teacher; and how, in the face of all opposition, she led her pupil to triumph and made her one of the great world figures of any time,.The book makes clear the intricate and singularly beautiful relation ship between the two women,it shows where Helen stops and the teacher begins, and discusses in some detail the various attacks upon Helen.The author has been an intimate friend of Mrs. Macy and Helen Keller
