Download A Rare Recording of Helen Keller, Anne Sullivan, and Polly Thompson Audiobook

Helen Keller was born on June 27, 1880, in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Though born with the ability to see and hear, at nineteen-months-old she contracted an acute illness that left her both deaf and blind. Eventually, twenty-year-old Anne Sullivan, herself visually impaired, became Keller’s speech instructor. It was the beginning of a forty-nine-year-long relationship during which Sullivan evolved into Keller’s governess and eventually her companion. In 1914, Sullivan’s health began to fail, so a young woman from Scotland, Polly Thomson, was hired to keep house. Though she had no experience with deaf or blind people, Thompson progressed to working as a secretary, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller. Keller went on to become a famous speaker and author. Today she is known worldwide as a suffragist, a pacifist, a radical socialist, and a birth control advocate.

This audiobook is a rare recording of these three remarkable women.