Anne Marshall Sullivan

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"This study will examine the life and career of Anne Mansfield Sullivan insofar as they reflect on her relationship with Helen Keller and on the causes and implications of a sensory handicap on the life of a famous individual.

As Van Wyck Brooks writes, Sullivan came into Keller's life by way of Alexander Graham Bell. Bell was acquainted with Keller's father and recommended to him that he ask for a teacher from the famous and respected Perkins Institution, which specifically dealt with the education of the blind, for his daughter Helen. Michael Anagnos, the head of the institute, "chose Anne Sullivan, who had lived for six years at the Institution, as a half-blind child herself with a story behind her; and this young woman, who was fourteen years older than Helen, arrived at Tuscumbia in the spring of 1887 . . . Helen ..."

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