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The first biography to unearth the fascinating relationship between Anne Sullivan Macy and Helen KellerAfter many years, historian and Helen Keller expert Kim Nielsen realized that she, along with other biographers, had shortchanged Anne Sullivan Macy, a woman remembered primarily as a miracle worker. The story of this brilliant, complex, and misunderstood woman who described herself as a "badly constructed human being," has never been completely told. Nielsen's biography, the first to focus on Macy in nearly fifty years, complicates the typical Helen-Annie "feel-good" narrative in surprising ways. By telling Macy's life as her story-not Keller's-it presents a new, gripping tale about a wounded but determined woman and her quest for a successful and meaningful life.Born in 1866 to poor Irish immigrants, the deserted Macy suffered part of her childhood in the Massachusetts State Almshouse in Tewksbury before studying at the Perkins School for the Blind. As an adult, Macy taught Keller, helping her realize her immense potential. Nielsen argues that Macy's intimate friendship with Keller remained powerful yet later reversed as Macy -floundering with her own blindness, depression, and tumultuous marriage-eventually leaned on her student emotionally, physically, and economically. Beyond the Miracle Worker unravels one of the best known-and least understood-friendships of the twentieth century.

Kim E. Nielsen is an award-winning educator, the author of three books, including The Radical Lives of Helen Keller, and the editor of Helen Keller: Selected Writings. Nielsen lives in Green Bay, Wisconsin, where she is professor of history and women’s studies at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay.

Introduction	p. ix
Feeding Hills, 1866-1876	p. 1
Tewksbury Almshouse, 1876-1880	p. 13
Perkins, 1880-1886: Part One	p. 37
Perkins, 1880-1886: Part Two	p. 57
Becoming Teacher, 1887	p. 73
Tuscumbia, 1888-1891	p. 93
The Battle for Helen, Round 1, 1891-1894	p. 111
The Battle for Helen, Round 2, 1894-1900	p. 135
Radcliffe, 1900-1904	p. 163
John, 1904-1914	p. 179
On the Road, 1914-1924	p. 201
The American Foundation for the Blind, 1924-1930	p. 225
Concluding, 1930-1936	p. 249
Conclusion	p. 267
Acknowledgments	p. 269
Notes	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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