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Written Works and Her Inspiration To The Deaf Community
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Inspiration to the Deaf Community- She inspired the deaf community by being a deaf woman in a career that did not allow a lot of deaf women to work in. She also helped shape the American literature landscape during the Civil War.
Her proffesional career started in 1857 when she started witing poems for Harper's Magazine. She then wrote an essay explaining of deafness for the American Annals of the Deaf in 1958. After this, she became an assistant editor and a columnist for the newspaper the St.Louis Presbyterian and a year later she was made a editorialist for the St.Louis Rebublic where she started to use the pen name "Howard Glyndon"to appeal to the public. In 1861,she was sent to Washington D.C to write stories and poems about the Civil War that was happening, while communicating with many impotant political figures of that time. In 1871, she became a staff writer for the New York Evening while helping The Tribune and Harper's Magazine.
When Laura graduated from the Missouri School for the Deaf in 1859, she looked for colleges. All of the colleges at that time did not accept deaf women. Because of this, Laura decided to tour Europe in 1865 through 1869. In Europe she learned many languages. Those languages were French, Spanish, Italian, and German. She was also offered a teaching postion, but she declined.
United States in the 1860's
Laura Redden Searing was born in Somerset County, Maryland on February 9, 1839. Her parents were Littleton John Redden and Wilhelmia Waller Redden. Laura mostly lived in Fulton, Missouri during her childhood. When she was 11 years old, she got an illness called Spinal Menigitis. In order to be cured, she had to take a medication. This medication took away her hearing and she became deaf. In order to communicate, she used sign language and she wrote peotry. Her parents also decided to send her to the Missouri School for the Deaf located in Fulton Missouri.
Europe