Memoirs of Tilly Aston Australia's Blind Poet Author and Philanthropist
Melbourne: The Hawthorn Press, 1946. Hardcover. Hardcover : pp. [iv] [2] 243 [244] : grey cloth boards : frontispiece portrait : a nice copy inscribed in Braille and handwriting for a previous owner by Aston with some handwritten marginal notes on page 9.
Newspaper clipping about the mounting of a plaque on the author's cairn at her birthplace pasted to front endpaper; spine ends pressed; cloth a little marked; block edges and endpapers tanned and a little foxed; some faint foxing to first few pages. Good. Item #8352
Matilda Ann Aston (1873-1947) was born in Carisbrook, Victoria with defective eyesight and became totally blind by the age of 7. "She established in 1894 the Victorian Association of Braille Writers (later the Victorian Braille Library). Next, with a few friends, she founded and became first secretary of the Association for the Advancement of the Blind; she was president in 1947" [ADB] and was a member of the Bread and Cheese Club. The work includes selections from the author's poetry. Miller/Macartney, p.43.
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