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Mrs. Sigourney of Hartford
Contents
| Acknowledgments |
ix |
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| Introduction |
1 |
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| Timeline |
37 |
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| About the Texts |
49 |
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| Part 1. Alice |
51 |
| “For Alice” (1815) |
51 |
| “To Alice” (1826) |
53 |
Excerpt on Alice from Letters of Life (1866),
including
“Les Sourds Muets se trouvent-ils malheureux?” (1827) |
56 |
Untitled poem beginning “You ask ‘how music melts away’”
(1828) |
60 |
| “Funeral of Dr. Mason F. Coggswell” (1835) |
61 |
Excerpt on Alice from Letters to My Pupils(1851),
including
“Excuse for not Fulfilling an Engagement” (1815) and
“Alice” (1831) |
64 |
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| Part 2. Deaf Hartford |
76 |
Excerpt on the American Asylum from Scenes in My
Native
Land (1845) |
78 |
| “To Fanny” (n.d.) |
81 |
| “Opinions of the Uneducated Deaf and Dumb”(1827) |
82 |
| “Prayers of the Deaf and Dumb” (1828) |
90 |
Memoir of Phebe P. Hammond, a Pupil at the American
Asylum at Hartford (1833), including an untitled poem
about Phebe Hammond in heaven |
92 |
| “Marriage of the Deaf and Dumb” (1834) |
108 |
| “The Mute Boy” (1835) |
110 |
| “La Petite Sourde-Muette” (1848) |
113 |
| Excerpts from Sayings of the Little Ones (1855) |
116 |
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| Part 3. The Deaf-Blind Girls: Julia Brace and
Laura Bridgman |
118 |
| “The Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl” (1828) |
120 |
“On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl of the
American
Asylum, Hartford, at a Festival” (1827) |
128 |
“On Seeing the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, Sitting for
Her
Portrait” (1834) |
134 |
| “Meeting of the Blind with the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind”
(1834) |
136 |
“Laura Bridgman, the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Girl, at the
Institution for the Blind in Boston” (1838) |
139 |
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| Part 4. Gallaudet |
142 |
| Excerpt on school rewards from Letters of Life (1866) |
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| “A Little Girl to her Friend” (1834) |
142 |
| “Hymn” (1851) |
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143 |
| Notes |
145 |
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| Works Cited |
149 |
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153 |
| Index of First Lines |
161 |
Edna Edith Sayers, former professor of English at Gallaudet University,
lives on Seneca Lake, NY, where she writes on Deaf history, Old Icelandic
literature, and disability studies.
Diana Moore is a Deaf Collection and Instructional Librarian at Gallaudet
University, Washington, DC.
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