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Anne Sullivan Macy (born as Johanna Mansfield Sullivan; April 14, 1866 – October 20, 1936) was an American teacher best known for being the instructor and lifelong companion of Helen Keller. [1] At the age of five, Sullivan contracted trachoma , an eye disease, which left her partially blind and without reading or writing skills. [ 2 ]
Patty Duke was born Anna Marie Duke on December 14, 1946 at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan [2] to Frances Margaret (née McMahon) (1913–1993), a cashier, and John Patrick Duke (1913–1964), a handyman and cab driver, [3] who was of Irish descent. [4]
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.
Things are on the up and up when it comes to Princess Anne’s heath. After visiting the princess in the hospital on Tuesday, June 25, Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, her husband of 31 years ...
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A former Playboy model killed herself and her 7-year-old son after jumping from a hotel in Midtown New York City on Friday morning. The New York Post reports that 47-year-old Stephanie Adams ...
Memorial to Anne Winifred "Nancy" (née Sullivan), widow of 2nd Duke of Westminster, in St Mary's Church, Eccleston Grave of Anne Winifred "Nancy" (née Sullivan), widow of 2nd Duke of Westminster Anne Winifred Grosvenor, Duchess of Westminster (née Sullivan ; 13 April 1915 – 31 August 2003), known as Nancy , was an Irish -born widow of a ...
The first of these works was a 1957 Playhouse 90 broadcast written by William Gibson and starring Teresa Wright as Anne Sullivan and Patricia McCormack as Keller. [citation needed] Gibson adapted his teleplay for a 1959 Broadway production with Patty Duke as Keller and Anne Bancroft as Sullivan. The 1962 film also starred Bancroft and Duke.