Bruce Curtis, “Beryl on the Margins: A Memoir of Teaching ‘Under Disadvantages'"

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Correction

Page 71. Two recently uncovered newspaper obituaries for Beryl’s stepmother from February, 1903 suggest that Beryl lost her hearing not in 1897, but rather in this later year. Both sources describe her as being deathly ill with both scarlet fever and diphtheria. Since she spoke so well in later life, it is likely at age 12, not age 5, that she lost her hearing.

Page 79, Figure 4. Beryl’s car is a circa 1920 Ford Roadster, not a 1930 Ford Model T Roadster as the caption says.