id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 31721 Martin, Frances Elizabeth Gilbert and Her Work for the Blind .txt text/plain 80529 4275 77 The life of Elizabeth Gilbert and her work for the blind are so The little girl, Bessie, as she was always called, was christened at St. Mary's Church, which is close to the old-fashioned house in High Street that the parents took their little Bessie to London, and there, as Mr. Wintle's diary tells, the case was pronounced to be hopeless. room we know of, and won Bessie's heart the first day by telling at the if Bessie Gilbert lived to do a great work on behalf of the blind, and He requires very little _time_ to enable his poor blind sister tells how about this time Bessie began "to want to do impossible During the year 1854 Levy's accounts were copied sometimes by Mrs. Gilbert, sometimes by Bessie's sisters or her sister-in-law. Bessie's friends heard of her proposed book on the blind with interest. ./cache/31721.txt ./txt/31721.txt