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![]() Eventually Annie got to go to school but her life was never easy. Tewksbury was a neglected poor house, but it was the home the children knew for many years. ![]() Since no one could control her or pay for little Jimmy's treatments, they were sent to the Tewksbury. Finding all this unfair, the only thing little Annie could think to do was rage against everyone. Annie would spend her whole life in various degrees of bad vision. Joanna, Annie's real name, developed Trachoma. Mary, the baby, by all accounts may be normal. Thomas, the father, turned to alcohol to soothe his pains. Alice, the mother, and Jimmy developed tuberculosis. Coming from a poor family that had recently moved to America to get away from the Irish famine took it's toll on all the Sullivans. Other relatives were in charge of her brother Jimmy and her sister Mary. Little Annie Sullivan grew up on her cousin's tobacco farm because her mother had died and her father couldn't take care of her and her siblings. The book starts off with Annie's background. ![]() It was very interesting to look at her through Annie's eyes. I have read anything that I could find on her. I have been a lover of Helen Keller all of my life. Five out of five stars does not do this book justice in my opinion. ![]()
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