The Woman Who Saw What Sighted Eyes Missed

When Fanny Crosby was six weeks old, a country doctor's careless poultice left her permanently blind. By every measure of nineteenth-century America, her life was a wilderness — a young girl navigating a world she would never see. Yet at the New York Institution for the Blind, something remarkable began to bloom. By age eight, Fanny had memorized the first five books of the Bible.…