Eleanor Gertrude Brown

Eleanor Gertrude Brown (August 28, 1887 — July 21, 1964) was an American Milton scholar and educator.

She completed undergraduate studies at Ohio State University in 1914,[2] the school's first blind graduate.

[4][5] For forty years, until her retirement in 1952,[3] Brown taught English, German, Latin, and history to sighted students, at Steele High School in Dayton.

[7] Books by Eleanor Gertrude Brown include Milton's Blindness (1934), a work of literary scholarship based on her doctoral dissertation about John Milton; Into the Light (1946), a book of poetry; and Corridors of Light (1958), a memoir of her own education, with an introduction by Harry Emerson Fosdick.

[8] "To my interpretation of Milton's life and writing after the loss of sight, I add my knowledge of blindness," she explained of her scholarship.