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People with disabilities in literature

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• Recovering Disability in Early Modern England (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2013), ed. by Allison P. Hobgood and David Houston Wood (PDF at Ohio State)
• The Madwoman and the Blindman: Jane Eyre, Discourse, Disability (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2012), ed. by David Bolt, Julia Miele Rodas, and Elizabeth J. Donaldson, contrib. by Lennard J. Davis (PDF from Ohio State University Press)
• Fictions of Affliction: Physical Disability in Victorian Culture (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2004), by Martha Stoddard Holmes (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Horatio Lovejoy's New Year's Eve, 1863-4 (Charles City, IA: Advocate Steam Job Print, 1882) (HTML with commentary at merrycoz.org)

• Crip Authorship: Disability as Method, ed. by Mara Mills and Rebecca Sanchez (multiple formats with commentary at NYU Press)

• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Jay Dolmage (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Address: Centauri (Galaxy Science Fiction novel #32; c1955), by F. L. Wallace, illust. by Wallace Wood
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Catalina (c1948), by W. Somerset Maugham (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• Of Human Bondage, by W. Somerset Maugham (Gutenberg text)
• Porgy (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1925), by DuBose Heyward, illust. by Theodore Nadejen (page images at HathiTrust)
• The History of Sir Richard Calmady, by Lucas Malet (HTML at Indiana)

• François le Bossu (in French), by Sophie Ségur (Gutenberg text)
• Freckles, by Gene Stratton-Porter (Gutenberg text)
• Freckles (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1904), by Gene Stratton-Porter, illust. by E. Stetson Crawford (multiple formats at Indiana)
• The Secret Garden (New York: F. A. Stokes Co., c1911), by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • page images at LOC
• Ted and the Telephone (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1922), by Sara Ware Bassett, illust. by William F. Stecher (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Friends Till Death (London: H. S. King and Co., 1876), by Hesba Stretton
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Little Lame Prince, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illust. by Dorothy Todd (illustrated HTML at Virginia)
• The Little Lame Prince, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik (Gutenberg text and audio)
• The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak (London: Daldy, Isbister and Co., 1875), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illust. by John McL. Ralston (HTML at Indiana)
• The Little Lame Prince and His Travelling Cloak (Chicago et al.: Rand-McNally and Co., c1909), by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, illust. by Hope Dunlap (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
• The Little Lame Prince, Rewritten for Young Readers, by Dinah Maria Mulock Craik and Margaret Waters, illust. by Hugo von Hofsten (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• We and the World: A Book for Boys, by Juliana Horatia Ewing
  • Part I: Gutenberg text
  • Part II: Gutenberg text

• Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)

• Simplified Signs: A Manual Sign-Communication System for Special Populations (2 volumes; Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2020), by John D. Bonvillian, Nicole Kissane Lee, Tracy T. Dooley, and Filip T. Loncke, illust. by Val Nelson-Metlay
  • Volume 1 (Principles, Background, and Application): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
  • Volume 2 (Simplified Sign Lexicon, Descriptions, and Memory Aids): multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers
• Comprehensive Individualized Curriculum and Instructional Design (c2015), ed. by Samuel Sennott and Sheldon Lawrence Loman (at pdxscholar.library.pdx.edu)

• The First into the Dark: The Nazi Persecution of the Disabled (Sydney: UTS ePress, c2019), by Michael D. Robertson, Astrid Ley, and Edwina Light (PDF with commentary at OAPEN)
• Confronting the "Good Death": Nazi Euthanasia on Trial, 1945-1953 (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, c2005), by Michael Bryant (PDF at upcolorado.com)
• Handicapped: Victims of the Nazi Era, 1933-1945 (Washington: United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, ca. 2000), by United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (PDF at ushmm.org)

• Disability Studies Quarterly (issues online from 2000 onward) (partial serial archives)

• A Wheelchair Rider's Guide: San Francisco Bay and the Nearby Coast (c2006), by Bonnie Lewkowicz (PDF at ca.gov)
• A Wheelchair Rider's Guide: Los Angeles and Orange County Coast (c2001), by Erik Mikiten and Elisa Mikiten (PDF at ca.gov)

• Rehabilitation of the Injured Combatant (2 volumes from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1998-1999), ed. by Timothy R. Dillingham and Praxedes V. Belandres
  • Volume 1: PDF files at Borden Institute
  • Volume 2: PDF files at Borden Institute
• Nervous and Mental Re-Education (New York: Macmillan, 1923), by Shepherd Ivory Franz (page images at HathiTrust)

• Barriers Everywhere: Lack of Accessibility for People with Disabilities in Russia (New York et al.: Human Rights Watch, c2013), by Andrea Mazzarino (HTML and PDF files with commentary at hrw.org)

• Disability in America: Toward a National Agenda for Prevention (1991), ed. by Andrew M. Pope and Alvin R. Tarlov (page images with commentary at NAP)
• The American Negro as a Dependent, Defective and Delinquent (c1914), by Charles H. McCord (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Building Accessible Websites (online edition; originally published 2002), by Joe Clark (HTML with commentary at joeclark.org)

• Misdeelde Kinderen: Inleiding tot de Paedagogische Pathologie en Therapie (in Dutch; Groningen: J. B. Walters, 1904), by Jan Klootsema (page images at HathiTrust)
• Working With the Handicapped: A Leader's Guide (New York: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., c1954), by Joan L. Carter, illust. by Irene K. Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)

• Man's Miracle: The Story of Helen Keller and Her European Sisters (New York: Doubleday, Page and Co., 1913), by Gérard Harry, contrib. by Georgette Leblanc (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Ableism in Academia: Theorising Experiences of Disabilities and Chronic Illnesses in Higher Education (London: UCL Press, c2020), ed. by Nicole Brown and Jennifer Leigh (PDF with commentary at UCL Press)
• Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2017), by Jay Dolmage (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2010), ed. by Sally Chivers and Nicole Markotić (PDF at Ohio State)

• The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness, by Henry Herbert Goddard (illustrated HTML at York)
• The Kallikak Family: A Study in the Heredity of Feeble-Mindedness (New York: Macmillan, 1916), by Henry Herbert Goddard (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• Supporting Individuals with Intellectual Disabilities and Mental Illness: What Caregivers Need to Know (Vancouver: BCCampus, c2015), by Sherri Melrose, Debra Dusome, John Simpson, Cheryl Crocker, and Elizabeth Athens (multiple formats with commentary at opentextbc.ca)

• Of Mice and Men (c1937), by John Steinbeck (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
• The Sound and the Fury (originally published 1929), by William Faulkner (multiple formats in Canada; NO US ACCESS)

• Summit (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c2002), ed. by Marc Maurer (illustrated HTML at nfb.org)
• Reflecting the Flame (Baltimore: National Federation of the Blind, c1999), ed. by Marc Maurer (HTML at nfb.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.