The Blind Contessa's new Machine
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Unable to convince her family and desirable fiance ́that she is going blind, early nineteenth-century Italian contessa Carolina Fantoni turns to her dreams and an eccentric local inventor when she loses her sight, inspiring the inventor's development of the first typewriter.
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PUBLISHED
New York : Pamela Dorman Books/Viking, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 207 p. ; 19 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780670021895
067002189X
SUBJECTS
Blind women -- Fiction.
Inventors -- Fiction.
Italy -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Love stories.