A sign of her own / Sarah Marsh.
Momo rauemi: TextKaiwhakaputa: Toronto : Park Row Books, [2024]Copyright date: ©2024Whakaahuatanga: 369 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- still image
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781035401635
- 9780778310785
- 0778310787
- 823/.92 23/eng/20240207
- PR6113.A7738 S54 2024
Momo tuemi | Tauwāhi onāianei | Kohinga | Tau karanga | Tūnga | Rā oti | Waeherepae | Ngā puringa tuemi | |
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Fiction | Waverley LibraryPlus Fiction | Fiction | MARS (Tirotirohia te whatanga(Opens below)) | I takina atu | 09/04/2024 | i2237166 |
Ellen Lark is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell. Ellen is deaf and for a time she was Bell's student learning visible speech. During their lessons, Bell also confided in her about his dream of producing a device that would transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. Now, on the cusp of wealth and renown, Bell wants Ellen to speak up in support of his claim to the patent of the telephone, which is being challenged by rival inventors. But Ellen has a different story to tell: that of how Bell betrayed her and other deaf pupils in pursuit of his own ambition. Ellen knows that this is her one opportunity to tell the true story--her story--but to do so will risk her engagement, her future prospects and her mother's last wish for her.
Inspired by a true story, describes the life of Ellen Lark, a deaf woman who became a favorite student of Alexander Graham Bell while he raced against Western Union to cast a human voice over wires.
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