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Sweet Bells Jangled

Laura Redden Searing, A Deaf Poet Restored

First Edition

Edited by Judy Yaeger Jones & Jane E. Vallier
Categories: Literature / Poetry / Literary Studies, Deaf Studies, Women's and Gender Studies
Series: Gallaudet Classics in Deaf Studies

Laura Redden Searing (1839-1923) defied critics of the time by establishing herself as a successful poet, a poet who was deaf. She began writing verse at the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1858, and, ...

Orchid of the Bayou

A Deaf Woman Faces Blindess

First Edition

By Cathryn Carroll & Catherine Hoffpauir Fischer
Categories: Biography / Memoir, DeafBlind Studies, Women's and Gender Studies

In graduating from Gallaudet University, finding a job in Washington, D.C., and starting a family with her college sweetheart, Kitty Fischer tacitly abandoned the Louisiana Cajun culture that had exposed ...

The Cry of the Gull

First Edition

By Emmanuelle Laborit
Categories: Biography / Memoir, Art and Performance, Women's and Gender Studies

Emmanuelle Laborit begins her autobiography The Cry of the Gull with a simple explanation of how sign language changed her life: "With the help of sign language, I understood that yesterday was behind ...