Saturday, May 05, 2012
The adventurous life and love story of Mable
Here's an interesting piece of history with a bunch of black and white photos written by the National Geographic. A piece that covers the human side on the life and adventurous times of Mabel Gardiner Hubbard (late deafened at age 5) who was married to Alexander Graham Bell. What sealed the National Geographic relationship with the Bell family was that Mable and Alexander G. Bell had two daughters together named Elsie and Daisy where Elsie grew up and married Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor who was National Geographic magazine’s first editor-in-chief. That solidified the family ties with the National Geographic company.
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Thank you for sharing that story. Definitely an interesting ending which apparently got twisted around big time by the ASL cops.
Mabel was fortunate to have been married to a man that cared and loved her deeply regardless of her deafness and that she loved him dearly just as well and never left his side, even unto to his death.
Absolutely agree, Mabel was fortunate and so was Alexander Graham.
Interesting story, though I feel it leaves a lot out of their lives and their courtship. I thought AGB was set against ASL or signing in any way? He could have "mouthed" the word "No".
Great post thanks for that.
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