Blindness: a cultural history
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The Most Extraordinary Story of a Blind Woman
Elizabeth Gilbert, the writer of Eat Pray Love, was a Victorian philanthropist. She set up a factory for blind people in London and wrote to Queen Victoria asking for money. "It's definitely part of the do good thing philanthropic wave that's going through Britain at the time"
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