Margaret McAvoy, an extraordinary blind girl, 1800-1820

Margaret McAvoy, an extraordinary blind girl, 1800-1820. Young blind woman of Liverpool famous for her ability to read text and see colours with her fingers. After a portrait in Dr. Thomas Renwick's A narrative of the case of Miss Margaret McAvoy, London, 1817. Lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield's Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869

19th Century Ability Book Of Wonderful Characters Eccentric Extraordinary Fingers Freak Henry Wilson James Caulfield John Camden Hotten Memoirs And Anecdotes Ophthalmology Piccadilly Remarkable Robert Cooper Stipple Engraving Young Woman

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