LibGuides: Special Collections: Disability History Resources: Literature

Literature by or about people with disabilities and/or health conditions

The collections include:

Works by Frances Bellerby
Works by Jack Clemo
Plaintext: Essays (1983) by Nancy Mairs (Hypatia CRIT/MAI)
Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (1972) by Flannery O'Connor (Hypatia LIT/OCO)
Lady in Waiting (1956) by Rosemary Sutcliff (Hypatia FIC/SUT)
The Flowers of Adonis (1969) by Rosemary Sutcliff (Hypatia FIC/SUT)
Houses and History (1960) by Rosemary Sutcliff (Hypatia HIS/SUT)
Works by David Rees
Works by Denton Welch

The collections include:

I proved thee at the waters: the testimony of a blind writer's mother (1976?) by Eveline Clemo with poems by Jack Clemo. Inscribed by Jack Clemo inside front cover. (EUL MS 395)
Uncertain Journey: a woman's experience of living with cancer (1996) by Anne Dennison (Hypatia HEA/DEN)
A Special Gift: the story of Dr Vicky Clement-Jones and the foundation of BACUP (1991) by Carolyn Faulder (Hypatia HEA/CLE)
Legally Dead: experiences during seventeen weeks' detention in a private asylum (1910) by Marcia Hamilcar (Hypatia HEA/HAM)
Jean's Way (1978) by Derek Humphry with Ann Wickett (Hypatia HEA/HUM)
Midstream: My Later Life (1929) by Helen Keller (Hypatia BIO/KEL)
The Story of my Life: with her letters, 1887-1901 (1904) by Helen Keller (Hypatia BIO/KEL)
Flying in the Face of Fear: Surviving cervical cancer (1998) by Mary Lunnen (Hypatia HEA/LUN)
The Girl Who Found the Blue Bird (1914) by Madame Maurice Maeterlinck (Georgette Leblanc) (Hypatia BIO/KEL)
Elizabeth Gilbert: and her work for the blind (1887) by Frances Martin (Hypatia HEA/GIL)
Still life: the story of a struggle with disablement (1969) by Elizabeth Twistington Higgins (Hypatia HEA/CLA)