ID
              3968
          Nationality
          British
              Occupation
          Family member
              Summary
              Daniel Defoe, in his book The Life and Adventures of Duncan Campbell, describes this unnamed deaf woman as "a miracle of wit and good nature," able to speak distinctly and to lipread easily, with a highly cultivated mind. This was in the days before the first British school for the deaf was established, and there is no indication of how she was educated.
          References
              American Annals of the Deaf and Dumb, v.1 n.3, April 1848, p.184.
          Dates
              17th Century