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In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look into a world recorded by an unlikely historical figure. Reflections is one of the earliest recorded manifestations of group solidarity among people with t

Blind --- Blind women --- Conduct of life. --- Husson, Therese-Adele, --- among. --- blind. --- changes. --- fascinating. --- figure. --- ideas. --- independence. --- newly-discovered. --- nineteenth-century. --- physical. --- poignant. --- records. --- self-sufficiency. --- sensibility. --- spirit. --- story. --- that. --- Blindness in women --- Women with disabilities --- Blind people --- Blind persons --- Blindness --- People with visual disabilities --- Deafblind people --- Patients --- Foucault, --- Husson, Adèle, --- Husson-Foucault, Thérèse-Adèle,