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Antique Poetry Book Helen Keller Chant of the Stone Wall Scarce First Edition Hardback Suffragette Interest 1910

Antique Poetry Book Helen Keller Chant of the Stone Wall Scarce First Edition Hardback Suffragette Interest 1910

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The Chant of the Stone Wall by Helen Keller 1st Edition Hardback Poetry Book first printing 1910. Beautiful Antique Book with decorative Art Nouveau style binding and relatively scarce.

Interior pages showing full black and white photographic plates of Helen Keller in elegant Country Scenes sometimes holding onto Stone Walls as in the spirit of the title.

The photographic plates are delightful Helen looks graceful and sweet in a typical smart Edwardian Style Walking Dress with Boater Hat and white blouse with Leg of Mutton Sleeves.

Helen Keller of course was a great pioneer for Disabled People and women in general in the late 19th and Early 20th Century. Suffering from both deafness and blindness (deafblind) she overcame many boundaries that were in place for women of the era by becoming an author, political activist and lecturer and even earning a bachelor's degree. Feats that were unusual for any woman to achieve in this time!

Helen overcame her profound disabilities to achieve this and paved the way for greater acceptance in society of people of similar disabilities.

Although not famously recognised as a Suffragette Helen was instrumental in the Suffragette movement and campaigned passionately for the Women's Rights movement as well as being an ardent socialist. the environment too!

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