EVANGELICAL WOMEN IN THE SECOND HALF OF 1800; ANNE SULLIVAN P/79

                                                                                                                                                                         

In this story I will focus on a woman named Anne Sullivan. She lived from 1866 - 1936. Anne was born in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts, USA. Her father was Thomas Sullivan and her mother was Alice Cloesy Sullivan.

When Alice was five years old, she contracted the bacterial eye disease trachoma, which caused many painful infections and over time made her nearly blind.

When Anne was eight years old, her mother died from tuberculosis and her father abandened her and her siblings two years later for fear that he could not raise them on his own. She was sent to the run-down and overcrowded almshouse Tewksbury.