before he died he had made arrangements ensuring her financial security at the school for the rest of her life. In 1887 her jubilee was celebrated there, but in 1889 she was taken ill, and she died on May 24. She was buried at Dana Cemetery in Hanover, New Hampshire near her family's farm. Legacy Bridgman became famous in her youth as an example of the education of a deaf-blind person. Helen Keller's mother, Kate Keller, read Dickens's account in American Notes and was inspired to seek advice which led to her hiring a teacher and former pupil of the same school, Anne Sullivan. Sullivan learned the manual alphabet at the Perkins Institution which she took back to Helen, along with a doll wearing clothing that Bridgman had sewn herself. Bridgman's case is mentioned in La Symphonie Pastorale by André Gide. A Liberty ship, the , was named after her. In 2014, a fictional account of the life of Bridgman, What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins, was published. See also Helen Keller Ragnhild Kåta Julia Brace Notes Further reading Elliott, Maud Howe and Florence Howe Hall. Laura Bridgman: Dr. Howe's Famous Pupil and What He Taught Her, Boston, 1903. Freeberg, Ernest. The Education of Laura Bridgman : First Deaf and Blind Person to Learn Language, 2001. Gitter, Elisabeth. The Imprisoned Guest: Samuel Howe and Laura Bridgman, the Original Deaf-Blind Girl, 2001. Hayward, John. "A Gazetteer of Massachusetts", Boston, 1847. Hunter, Edith Fisher. Child of the Silent Night, 1963. Jerusalem, Wilhelm. "Laura Bridgman. Education of a Deafblind. A Psychological Study", Vienna, 1890. Lamson, Mary Swift (1878) Life and Education of Laura Dewey Bridgman (Boston, Houghton Mifflin) Richards, Laura E. Laura Bridgman: The Story of an Opened Door, D. Appleton & Company. 1928. External links Laura Dewey Bridgman collection at The Leonard Axe Library, Pittsburg State University. Laura Bridgman and the music taken from "Wilhelm Jerusalem – Helen Keller:'Letters'" Dokumentary Theatre by Herbert Gantschacher: Laura E. Richards: Laura Bridgman: The Story of an Opened Door Literature on Laura Bridgman at the University Library Marburg (Germany) and the Collection Max Kirmsse Laura Bridgman Collection in the Perkins School for the Blind Archives 1829 births 1889 deaths American people with disabilities Schoolteachers from Massachusetts 19th-century American women educators People from Hanover, New Hampshire American deafblind people American blind people 19th-century American educators