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Laura Bridgman

1829 - 1889

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Laura Dewey Lynn Bridgman (December 21, 1829 – May 24, 1889) was the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, forty-five years before the more famous Helen Keller; Bridgman’s friend Anne Sullivan became Helen Keller's aide. Bridgman was left deaf-blind at the age of two after contracting scarlet fever. She was educated at the Perkins Institution for the Blind where, under the direction of Samuel Gridley Howe, she learned to read and communicate using Braille and the manual alphabet developed by Charles-Michel de l'Épée. For several years, Bridgman gained celebrity status when Charles Dickens met her during his 1842 American tour and wrote about her accomplishments in his American Notes. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Laura Bridgman is the 4,079th most popular writer (down from 2,982nd in 2019), the 5,995th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,759th in 2019) and the 459th most popular American Writer.

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Laura Bridgman ranks 4,079 out of 7,302Before her are Nuruddin Farah, Vira Vovk, André Schwarz-Bart, Laura Cereta, Anne Hébert, and Gleb Uspensky. After her are Yuriy Venelin, Léo Malet, Nossis, Mark Frost, Michel Carré, and Carl Sternheim.

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Among people born in 1829, Laura Bridgman ranks 57Before her are Suzanne Manet, Charles Walter De Vis, Jean Dufresne, Lester Allan Pelton, Louis Moreau Gottschalk, and Ludwig Adolph Timotheus Radlkofer. After her are José López Domínguez, Mikayel Nalbandian, Ferdinand von Hochstetter, Frederick Sandys, August Malmström, and Théodore Aubanel. Among people deceased in 1889, Laura Bridgman ranks 64Before her are Ludwig Anzengruber, José Joaquín Pérez, Ivan Larionov, Ignatz Kolisch, Gustav Lange, and Domingo Santa María. After her are August Ahlqvist, Pyotr Andreyevich Shuvalov, Josip Filipović, Miles Joseph Berkeley, Sergey Botkin, and Gerard Manley Hopkins.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Laura Bridgman ranks 5,995 out of 20,380Before her are Francis Hunter (1894), Finneas O'Connell (1997), Johnny Appleseed (1774), Kristanna Loken (1979), Robert Z'Dar (1950), and Frank H. Netter (1906). After her are Marc Jacobs (1963), Selma Blair (1972), Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (1973), Mark Frost (1953), Jason Patric (1966), and Pat Martino (1944).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Laura Bridgman ranks 459Before her are Daniel Silva (1960), Gary Chapman (1938), Bret Harte (1836), Emma Lazarus (1849), Gene Wolfe (1931), and Leigh Brackett (1915). After her are Mark Frost (1953), Lilian Jackson Braun (1913), Louis Bromfield (1896), Peter Straub (1943), Melissa Mathison (1950), and Sonny Barger (1938).