Editing Helen Keller (section)

==Companions==
[[File:PSM V63 D081 Helen keller and miss sullivan.png|thumb|Helen Keller in 1899 with lifelong companion and teacher Anne Sullivan. Photo taken by [[Alexander Graham Bell]] at his School of Vocal Physiology and Mechanics of Speech.]]

[[Anne Sullivan]] stayed as a companion to Keller long after she taught her. Sullivan married John Macy in 1905, and her health started failing around 1914. Polly Thomson (February 20, 1885<ref name="Herrmann1999">{{cite book|last=Herrmann|first=Dorothy|title=Helen Keller: A Life|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA266|access-date=November 12, 2017|date=1999|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0226327631|pages=266–|archive-date=May 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200508084457/https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA266|url-status=live}}</ref> – March 21, 1960) was hired to keep house. She was a young woman from Scotland who had no experience with deaf or blind people. She progressed to working as a secretary as well, and eventually became a constant companion to Keller.<ref name=grace>{{cite web|url=http://www.graceproducts.com/helenkeller.htm| title=Tragedy to Triumph: An Adventure with Helen Keller| publisher=Graceproducts.com| access-date=March 15, 2016| archive-date=March 14, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160314143135/http://www.graceproducts.com/helenkeller.htm| url-status=live}}</ref>

Keller moved to [[Forest Hills, Queens]], together with Sullivan and Macy, and used the house as a base for her efforts on behalf of the [[American Foundation for the Blind]].<ref name="rnib"/> While in her 30s, Keller had a love affair and became secretly engaged; she also defied her teacher and family by attempting an [[elopement]] with the man she loved,<ref>{{cite news| title=Helen Keller's Secret Love Life|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosie-sultan/helen-keller_b_1477393.html| last=Sultan| first=Rosie| date=May 14, 2012| work=The Huffington Post| access-date=March 15, 2016| archive-date=March 20, 2016| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160320070921/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rosie-sultan/helen-keller_b_1477393.html| url-status=live}}</ref> Peter Fagan, who was known as "the fingerspelling socialist",<ref name="Nielsen2007"/> and was a young ''[[Boston Herald]]'' reporter sent to Keller's home to act as her private secretary when Sullivan fell ill. At the time, her father had died and Sullivan was recovering in [[Lake Placid, New York|Lake Placid]] and [[Puerto Rico]]. Keller had moved with her mother in [[Montgomery, Alabama]].<ref name="Nielsen2007"/>

Sullivan died in 1936, with Keller holding her hand,<ref name=holding_hand>{{cite book |last=Herrmann |first=Dorothy |year= 1999 |title=Helen Keller: A Life |publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]] |isbn=978-0-226-32763-1 |page=255 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA255 |quote=With Helen Keller at her bedside, holding her hand, Anne Sullivan Macy died on October 20, 1936, at seven-thirty in the morning. |access-date=November 17, 2021 |archive-date=January 9, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220109211525/https://books.google.com/books?id=VUp4uh87_eUC&pg=PA255 |url-status=live }}</ref> after falling into a coma as a result of [[coronary thrombosis]].<ref name=Nielsen/>{{rp|266}} Keller and Thomson moved to [[Connecticut]]. They traveled worldwide and raised funds for the blind. Thomson had a stroke in 1957 from which she never fully recovered and died in 1960. Winnie Corbally, a nurse originally hired to care for Thomson in 1957, stayed on after Thomson's death and was Keller's companion for the rest of her life.<ref name="rnib">{{cite web|title=The life of Helen Keller |publisher=Royal National Institute of Blind People |date=November 20, 2008 |url=http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp |access-date=January 22, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070607082507/http://www.rnib.org.uk/xpedio/groups/public/documents/publicwebsite/public_keller.hcsp |archive-date=June 7, 2007 }}</ref>