Project Gutenberg 2025-08-11 Public domain in the USA. 187 Jewel, Adele M. 1834 1921 George, Adele M. A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (being deaf and dumb) $aAnn Arbor :$bDr. Chase's Steam Printing House, $c1869. Carla Foust, The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "A brief narrative of the life of Mrs. Adele M. Jewel (being deaf and dumb) by Jewel is an autobiographical memoir written in the late 19th century. It relates the lived experience of a deaf woman in America, combining personal history, travel notes, religious reflection, and a frank appeal for sympathy and support. The narrative follows the author from a deaf childhood in Cincinnati, Detroit, and rural Michigan—marked by close friendships, a near-fatal encounter with a pet bear, and accidentally burning the family home—to early grief over her father’s and a friend’s deaths and a hard-won Christian faith. Struggling to learn in common schools, she discovers sign language through another deaf woman, studies at the Flint school for the deaf, and must withdraw after losing sight in one eye. She recounts travels to Niagara and through New York State, marveling at nature, public feats, and institutions serving deaf and blind children, and visits scattered family. Interwoven are notes of practical help from kind strangers and her own efforts to publish the booklet to support herself and her ailing mother. Later pages describe an unhappy marriage that leaves her with three small children (the eldest also deaf), her membership in a Baptist church, and life in Ann Arbor. The book closes as a modest, dignified appeal for readers’ understanding and assistance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) https://archive.org/details/101190691.nlm.nih.gov 20240821145132jewel 1869 US Reading ease score: 77.0 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. en Jewel, Adele M., 1834-1921 Deaf people -- Biography HV Text Category: Biographies 63612 2025-10-14T11:00:08.999167 text/html 38586 2025-10-14T08:20:46 text/html 38410 2025-08-11T10:15:29 text/html 488525 2025-10-14T11:00:21.706102 application/epub+zip 487206 2025-10-14T11:00:16.025174 application/epub+zip 377520 2025-08-11T10:15:29 image/jpeg 183863 2025-08-11T10:15:29 image/jpeg 41625 2025-08-11T10:15:29 image/jpeg 593 2025-08-11T10:15:29 image/jpeg 543 2025-08-11T10:15:29 image/jpeg 138451 2025-10-14T11:00:11.476191 application/epub+zip 737623 2025-10-14T11:00:26.848146 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 727646 2025-10-14T11:00:21.288110 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 51008 2025-10-14T11:00:08.729161 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30850 2025-10-14T08:18:20 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 30744 2025-08-11T10:15:29 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 21079 2025-10-14T11:00:26.990108 application/rdf+xml 18563 2025-10-14T11:00:15.652114 image/jpeg 2776 2025-10-14T11:00:15.553121 image/jpeg 627752 2025-10-14T11:00:09.020205 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://book.klll.cc/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog