Free Download Kate M. Farlow, "Silent Life and Silent Language: The Inner Life of a Mute in an Institution for the Deaf (Volume 11) "
English | ISBN: 1944838295 | 2018 | 202 pages | EPUB | 568 KB
Silent Life and Silent Language presents a fictionalized account of life at a Midwestern residential school for deaf students in the years following the Civil War. Based on the experiences of the author, who became deaf at the age of nine and entered a residential school when she was twelve, this historical work is remarkable and rare because it focuses on signing deaf women's lives. One of only a few accounts written by deaf women in the 19th century,