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Adelia M. Hoyt memoir and photographs
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UNFOLDING YEARS , 45 call them by different names." I could not see it just that way -- but argument was useless. Suddenly Blanche astonished every one by announcing her determination to go to Chicago and enter Northwestern University as a law student. In those days a woman lawyer was something of a curiosity and for a blind girl to aspire to such a career seemed sheer madness. All her friends expostulated with her and I confess that I joined with them. But Blanche was adamant! She claimed that if she was to be a writer she needed a broader experience. Accompanied by her devoted mother she went to Chicago, entered the University and the year we moved to Des Moines she graduated with honors. During her student life she had several long poems published and her second book appeared, "In the City by the Lake," containing two short stories in blank verse. Five years has now passed since I left school. They has not been altogether unhappy and I had kept busy -- but I had a feeling of frustration. I had gained much in experience and in social intercourse. My interest in work for the blind had steadily grown until it almost became an obsession There had been many heartaches and times of deep depression for I seemed so far from accomplishing anything worth while. Now perhaps I would find in my new environment the opportunity for which I had been waiting.
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UNFOLDING YEARS , 45 call them by different names." I could not see it just that way -- but argument was useless. Suddenly Blanche astonished every one by announcing her determination to go to Chicago and enter Northwestern University as a law student. In those days a woman lawyer was something of a curiosity and for a blind girl to aspire to such a career seemed sheer madness. All her friends expostulated with her and I confess that I joined with them. But Blanche was adamant! She claimed that if she was to be a writer she needed a broader experience. Accompanied by her devoted mother she went to Chicago, entered the University and the year we moved to Des Moines she graduated with honors. During her student life she had several long poems published and her second book appeared, "In the City by the Lake," containing two short stories in blank verse. Five years has now passed since I left school. They has not been altogether unhappy and I had kept busy -- but I had a feeling of frustration. I had gained much in experience and in social intercourse. My interest in work for the blind had steadily grown until it almost became an obsession There had been many heartaches and times of deep depression for I seemed so far from accomplishing anything worth while. Now perhaps I would find in my new environment the opportunity for which I had been waiting.
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