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Frances Martin. Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind
Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind
Table of Contents
All rights reserved. INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER I
CHILDHOOD
CHAPTER II
IN THE DARK
Footnote
CHAPTER III
LITTLE BLOSSOM
Footnote
CHAPTER IV
WHAT THE PROPHETESS FORESAW
Footnote
CHAPTER V
THE PALACE GARDEN
CHAPTER VI
A SENSE OF LOSS
Footnote
CHAPTER VII
THE BLIND MANAGER
CHAPTER VIII
ROYAL BOUNTY
CHAPTER IX
REMOVING STUMBLING-BLOCKS
Footnote
CHAPTER X
TRIALS AND TEMPTATIONS
CHAPTER XI
REFLECTIONS AND SUGGESTIONS
CHAPTER XII
HER DIARY
CHAPTER XIII
THE FEAR OF GOD AND NO OTHER
CHAPTER XIV
EVERYDAY LIFE
Footnote
CHAPTER XV
TIME OF TROUBLE
CHAPTER XVI
THE FIRST LOSS
CHAPTER XVII
HOW THE WORK WENT ON
CHAPTER XVIII
BLIND CHILDREN OF THE POOR
CHAPTER XIX
IN TIME OF NEED
CHAPTER XX
THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW
CHAPTER XXI
LIFE IN THE SICK-ROOM
CHAPTER XXII
TWILIGHT
Footnote
CHAPTER XXIII
THE END
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Frances Martin
Published by Good Press, 2021
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Mrs. Gilbert would learn not so much from the account of the things done, as the manner of doing them; from the explanation of the method of adapting ordinary maps and globes to the use of the blind, and of employing gum and sand and string and pieces of cork; the little holes in the map instead of the names of cities, and the movable pegs. All these hints were very valuable to her; and every one of them was turned to good account in the schoolroom at Oxford.
In 1839 Mr. J. Wintle sends raised books from London. In 1840 he has gone, out of health, on a visit to his friend Mr. Ellis, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh. One of his first visits was to the Edinburgh Asylum, and he writes an account of it to Mrs. Gilbert, "in the hope of being useful to your daughter Bessie." He promises further information from Glasgow, which is, so he learns, "the fountain-head of all works for the blind, save those published in America," and he announces a copy of the New Testament as almost ready, price £2: 2s. It was ultimately procured by Mrs. Gilbert and presented to Bessie.
