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Index Adams,James Eli, 185 Affair to &member, An (film), 3 "afflicted child," 95-96, 100-102, 107-8, 123,126,128,131,135, 138, 145, 147, 149-50, 163, 166, 167,171, 182-84, 189-90 Anderson, Thomas, 105-7, 115 Anzaldua, Gloria, viii Aristotle, 37 Armitage, Thomas Rhodes, 116 Ashton, E.T., 109, 113 Association for Promoting the General Welfare of the Blind, 107, 116, 121 Asylum for Indigent Deaf and Dumb Children (Surrey), 103-4 autobiography. Seelife writing Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), 92, 95, 99 Basil (Collins), 83 Baynton, Douglas, 12 Beaconfor the Blind, A (Holt), 164, 169-71 beggars and "begging impostors," 8-9, 18,30,32,38,65,94,95-96, 100-102, 107,117, 120-31, 133, 135, 142-47, 175, 180, 183, 189 Belinda the Blind; or, the Stepmother's Vengeance (Pitt), 23 Bentley, Eric, 18-19, 21-22, 155 biography. Seelife writing BlRakHouse (Dickens), 10, 59, 92 Blind among Enemies (Gideon), 38 Blind Boy, The (Kenney), 19, 23 blindness: causes of, 26-27, 63-66, 223 68, 70, 88,141, 145, 166, 172; childhood, 64-66, 88; and educalion , 101-7, 116, 173, 181; in fiction,40-48,57,74-76,84-93; and life writing, 164-83; and marriage , 7, 15, 35, 39, 44-47, 57, 68, 72-73,75-76,84-89,91,93, 164, 168, 177-80, 182, 188; and medicine , 26-27,63-70,88-89,91;and sensuality, 169; and sexuality, 7, 35, 38-48,64-65,70,72-73,76, blindness (continued) 84-90, 178; in stage melodrama, 23, 35, 38-39; stereotypes of, 84, 105-7, 127,143, 147, 163, 167, 169, 182, 188-89;and work, 102-:3, 107, 116-17, 119-22, 125-31, 139, 143-50, 164,168, 171-77, 17g-84, 188-90 Blindness and theBlind (Levy), 65-66, 107,119, 121-22, 158, 188-89 Blind Wife, The(Wilkins), 17-18, 23, 35 Booth, Michael, 23, 25, 36 British and Foreign Blind Association, 116 Bronte, Charlotte, 22, 57, 168 Brooks, Peter, 23-25, 31 Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, 6, 7, 34-35, :39-43,48-49,55-56,61,70,72, 89,91 Butler,Josephine, 111 Butler,Judith, 20, 185-86 Camphell, Francis, 116 Chadwick, Edwin, 109, 115 Chalmers, Thomas, 112-13, 121, 136 charity: and Christianity, 51, 97, 112, 114, 133, 145-46; and disability, 8, 26,30,48,58,70,95, 104-5, 113-22, 124, 126, 128-29, 131, 144, 147, 181, 183; and performance , 113, 136 Charity Organisation Reporter (COR), 30, 102, l 16-20, 122, 133, 178, 182 Charity Organisation Society (COS), 26, 110-12, 114, 116-20, 122, 131, 144,178,182 Christianity, 2, 51, 69, 97, 104-5, 11 4, 1 34, 145-46, 157, 1 64, 166, 173, 182-86 ChristrnasCarol, A (Dickens), 1-2, 5, 11, l 8, 43, 48, 72, 95-gg, 103, 131 Clever Woman of the Family, The (Yongc),6,7, 17,35,48,51-56, 58,70,72,98, 179 Index Collins, Wilkie, 7, 17, 23, 73-g3, 95; compared to Dickens, go, 93; criticism of disabled characters, 23, 73-74, go-g3; as disabled authorial body,73-74,91-g3 Colquhoun, Patrick, 1 12 Carmon, Eugene, 5-6, 23, 32, 35, 44,47,70,73,82,85 courtship plots, 5-7, 1o, 1 5, 30, 34-95,98, 188-89 Craik, Dinah Maria Mulock, 6-7, 35, 47-52,54-56,60,70,72,89, 179, 188 Cricketon the Hearth, The (Dickens), 6, 15, 17-18,35,39,43-48,55-56, 61,70,72,75,85,93, 133 "cripples": causes of, 65-66, 70-71; and marriage, 6, 15, 48-_59, 72, 83, 89, 93; and work, 15, f12, 130, 139-41, 158 Crosby, Christina, 24 David Copperfield (Dickens), 59, 92 Davies, Robertson, 24 Day and Martin's Charity for the Blind, 183 deafness: causes of, 65, 68, 70, 77, 79, 83, 88, l 50-5 I, I 56, 16o-61; and education, 29, 102-4, 116, 162; in fiction, 74-83; and life writing, 1 50-64; and marriage , 68, 75, 98, 188; and sensuality , 79-80, and sexuality, 76-83; in stage melodrama, 23; stereotypes of, 136, 158-60; and work, 102, 130-31, 149, 158-60,164, 184, 188 Deerbrook(Martineau), 150 deformity, 10, 28, 37, 48-50, 68, 70, 73,92 degeneration theory, 66, 189 de la Mare, Walter, go D'Ennery, Adolphe Phillipe, 23, 32,35,38-4o,44,47,70,73,82...