Mallonga biografio de Henry Fawcett la blinda ĉefpoŝtestro de Anglujo : Por…
Mallonga biografio de Henry Fawcett la blinda ĉefpoŝtestro de Anglujo by Holt. It is a short children’s biography written in the early 20th century. The book traces the life and work of Henry Fawcett, a blind British statesman who rose to become Postmaster General, highlighting perseverance, public service, and practical reforms. The narrative follows Fawcett from a lively childhood in Salisbury and strong gifts in mathematics at Cambridge, through the hunting accident
that blinded him, to his determined rebuilding of life through music, walking, skating, fishing, and study. With help from family and friends he returned to scholarship, wrote on political economy, and entered public life, winning a seat in Parliament to fight for universal education, fair access to parks and commons, and fiscal justice for Indians under British rule; he even devised tactile ways to study maps and plans. He married a capable collaborator, raised a daughter who guided him on the ice, and never let blindness confine him. Appointed Postmaster General, he introduced parcel post, postal savings and insurance, state telegraph oversight, groundwork for broad telephone service, and opened postal work to women. Widely respected for honesty and courage, he died in midlife, honored by memorials in Westminster Abbey and Salisbury; the book closes by urging readers, sighted or blind, to “press forward to the light.” (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Holt, Winifred, 1870-1945 |
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| Translator | Weems, E. W. (Elizabeth Webster), 1864-1939 |
| Title | Mallonga biografio de Henry Fawcett la blinda ĉefpoŝtestro de Anglujo : Por ĉiuj infanoj, ĉie |
| Original Publication | New York: The New York Association for the Blind, 1911. |
| Credits | Mairi, rkzenki and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | Esperanto |
| LoC Class | DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe |
| Subject | Fawcett, Henry, 1833-1884 |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 78054 |
| Release Date | Feb 27, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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