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Offers insight as well as delight\u003c\/strong\u003e — \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Sign of Her Own\u003c\/i\u003e tells the story of Ellen Lark, who is on the verge of marriage when she and her fiancé receive an unexpected visit from Alexander Graham Bell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEllen knows immediately what Bell really wants from her. Being deaf, Ellen was once Bell's student in a technique called Visible Speech. While teaching her to speak, Bell also shared his ambitious dream of creating a device that could transmit the human voice along a wire: the telephone. 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