Dictionary of national biography / edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee.

Two sisters sit under a tree decorating each others' hair with flowers. Engraving by C. Cousen after G. Smith.

A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.

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The Dictionary of national biography. The concise dictionary / [designed by George Smith ; edited by Sidney Lee].

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A blind girl reads the Bible by touch to her illiterate family in the dark; one man is tempted to go out and enjoy drunken revels in the daylight; representing light and darkness of the understanding. Engraving by W. Ridgway, 1871, after G. Smith.

The Dictionary of national biography. The concise dictionary / [designed by George Smith ; edited by Sidney Lee].

The Cornhill magazine

Two sisters sit under a tree decorating each others' hair with flowers. Engraving by C. Cousen after G. Smith.

Dictionary of national biography / edited by Leslie Stephen and Sidney Lee.